I don't know where the cutoff for notability lies but wherever it is, a woman who helped to calculate the orbit of Pluto and create GPS clears it. And that's before you factor what she had to overcome to get there.
@histoftech.bsky.socialNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
