“Many times we would get the old hand-me-down things from white schools books that weren’t new like their books were, but all of that helped to make us, I think, work harder because you know you are behind the eight ball to start with so you had to work harder,” West said. Gladys West: With Sophia Bush, Gladys West. But Gladys West knew, and she used her wonderful brain to help the Department of Defense (DoD) accomplish its goals, which would go on to help both our military and civilians worldwide. Gladys Mae Brown was born in rural Virginia, where her parents owned a small farm in an area populated mostly by sharecroppers. Her mathematical modeling of the shape of the earth, and. For instance, if you are using the Global Positioning System (GPS) to navigate locations, you can give thanks to the mathematical insights and contributions of Dr. Gladys West is a mathematician, and earned a PhD in Public Administration from Virginia Tech. Monumental changes in the way we see and do certain things. West recalled growing up as a young African American girl and attending a separate school from the “white school” and riding on separate buses. Gladys West, ne Gladys Mae Brown, (born October 27, 1930, Sutherland, Virginia), American mathematician known for her work contributing to the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Not every day you come across people who make far-reaching contributions in mathematics the way Dr.
I told myself I did not like being out in the sun working sunrise to sunset and all that, so I made good grades in all of my subjects,” West told the U.S. She was the second African American woman hired there and one of only four African American employees in total. military in the 1950s and 1960s, written about in Margot Lee Shetterly’s 2016 book and portrayed in the. West is a Hidden Figure (a reference to the Black women mathematicians, such as the late Katherine Johnson, who did computing for the U.S. Growing up south of Richmond, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, West was motivated by living in conditions she knew she didn’t want to create for herself in the future. Every time you pull up a map on your smartphone or in the car to navigate getting from point A to point B, you have Dr. Gladys West was recognized for doing the.
Gladys Mae West pictured at Dahlgren with Sam Smith in 1985 reviewing data from the Global Positioning System she helped develop. (Image/U.S. A hidden figure in the development of GPS technology has officially been honored for her work.Mathematician Dr. Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed and originally used for military purposes, but these days the technology is used in ways that few could have predicted decades ago, including one of the developers herself, innovator and pioneer, Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician who contributed to the development of GPS, was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018.
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