Gladys West

Gladys West is the respected American Mathematician from Sutherland Virginia, USA. She has already achieved many contributive findings and supportive developments in various field with her experience and excellency in the field of mathematics.

Furthermore, she has contributed in one of the major project of science to model the shape of the earth as she even today prefers paper maps rather than the electronic devices. Also, she helped and got made mainstream recognition during the production of Geodesy models, which is satellite providing todays GPS system. Want to know more about her? read all the ten facts below.

10 Facts on Gladys West:

1. Gladys West is famous mathematician from Virginia, United states of America who was the reason behind the development of Global positioning system(GPS).
2. She was born on 1930 in Virginia and she is currently at the age of 90 though, her birthday is not available.
3. Talking about her Net worth, with the achievements and talent she has already earned fortune from her profession though the details of her net worth is not available.
4. She is one of the most respected personality of America and has a Wikipedia profile of her own.
5. Moving on to her personal life details, she was married to another mathematician Ira West in the years 1957 who met each other during Naval Surface Warfare Centre Dahlgren Division.
6. However, we dont have information about her parents and other members of family.
7. She was born in the family where her father was a farmer and mother used to work in a tobacco factory.
8. She has already grown as a family, since she has three children and blessed with seven grandchildren.
9. She was also included in Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame in the year 2018.
10. She was one of the 100 Women of 2018 which was conducted in the year 2018 and in the same year she won “Female Alumna of the Year 2018” from Virginia State University.