Rocket woman who gave satellites their soundness of thrust
Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian-American propulsion engineer best known for her development of rocket and jet propulsion technologies. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA. Conscious of her role as a pioneer both for her sex and in her field, she urged girls to study maths and science. In 2010 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, along with the creators of Post-its, prompting ironic comment that it took two men to come up with slightly sticky stationery and one woman to discover how to keep satellites aloft. Her achievements were remarkable with someone with no engineering degree, thought at was through no fault of her own. The University of Manitoba in her native Canada rejected her application for its course on the grounds that it required fieldwork for which there were not female facilities on-site.
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