For anyone not reading the article, she did fundamental work measuring the geoid, the non-spherical corrections to Earth's shape that is fundamental to very accurate GPS positioning.
I'm glad she got her flowers in the end. As a fellow Hokie who was in school around then I wish I knew of her and her accomplishments while I was a student. She was a distance learning PhD student so would have only been in Blacksburg occasionally.
"I think everybody should have God in their life," Gladys says. "I can just about see the complete circle and I can go back and I can look and see what He did and where He put me and where all along. And I would think it's amazing that I didn't understand it at the time, exactly what was happening, but He was there and He was doing it."
NelsonMinar|1 month ago
Here's some pictures of the EGM2008 geoid we use today: https://francis.naukas.com/files/2023/07/D20230711-Computers...
yardie|1 month ago
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DonHopkins|1 month ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Notable_examples
RickJWagner|1 month ago
https://www.spaceforce.mil/Portals/2/Documents/Space_Pioneer...
West was a person of great faith.
"I think everybody should have God in their life," Gladys says. "I can just about see the complete circle and I can go back and I can look and see what He did and where He put me and where all along. And I would think it's amazing that I didn't understand it at the time, exactly what was happening, but He was there and He was doing it."
https://cbn.com/news/us/everybody-should-have-god-their-life...
https://gideons.org/blog/dr-gladys-west
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