Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a>: <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematician</span></a> & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histSci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geodesy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geodesy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/EarthScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthScience</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a></p>