Yvonne Brill (1924-2013)
Brill was born December 1924 in Winnipeg, Canada, to immigrant parents from Belgium.- She obtained a BSc in Chemistry and Maths and an MSc in Chemistry.
- Brill designed the electrothermal hydrazine thruster—a more fuel-efficient rocket thruster designed to keep communications satellites from slipping out of orbit.
- Due to her gender, Brill was prohibited from the men-only engineering department at the University of Manitoba.
- “You just have to be cheerful about it and not get upset when you get insulted”
- In 2011, President Obama awarded Brill a National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Text: Yvonne Brill, a Pioneering Rocket Scientist, Dies at 88 [Accessed June 2020]
Image: Invent.org [Accessed June 2020]
Author: Efe Otobrise
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