Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

interesting, the woman who wrote the Nature obituary got hate mail for writing the obituary from someone who felt Gladys didn't deserve getting the recognition, evidently

https://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.social/post/3me6kne...

on edit: the bluesky account histoftech seems to be run by the author of the Nature obituary Mar Hicks, at least they have the same pictures.

Recent discussion: Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology (78 points, 11 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651691

NPR (9 points, 4 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736279