Yvonne Brill
Canadian-American engineer
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Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster, a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps today’s satellites in orbit, and holds a patent... Wikipedia
Born: December 30, 1924, Winnipeg, Canada
Died: March 27, 2013 (age 88 years), Princeton, NJ
Education: University of Southern California (1951), University of Manitoba (1945), and USC Viterbi School of Engineering