Yvonne Brill, a pioneering rocket scientist who invented a more efficient thruster to keep satellites in orbit, died last week at age 88, according to news reports. Over her career, Brill ...

Pioneering rocket scientist Yvonne Brill often referred to herself as an “only” — as in the sole woman in the room at a time when female scientists and engineers were exceedingly few.

Yvonne Brill was a pioneering rocket scientist, who, after an eight-year break to raise a family, went on to develop a propulsion system to help keep satellites from slipping out of their orbits.

But Yvonne Brill, who died on Wednesday at 88 in Princeton, N.J., was also a brilliant rocket scientist, who in the early 1970s invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites ...

Thanks to Yvonne Brill, ... Brill is believed to be the only woman in the United Stated who was researching into rocket science in the mid-1940s. She encountered her fare share of prejudice, ...

Yvonne Brill, who died Wednesday at 88 in Princeton, N.J., was also a brilliant... Brill, a pioneering rocket scientist, dies at 88 San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

But Yvonne Brill, who died Wednesday at 88 in Princeton, N.J., was also a brilliant rocket scientist, who in the early 1970s invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites ...

Readers had plenty of beef with the New York Times after an obituary of rocket scientist Yvonne Brill came off sounding sexist, some of them said. The backlash forced The Times to change the obit ...