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2022-12-30 20:17 UTC
In the early 1980s, Brill left RCA to serve as director of the space shuttle solid rocket motor program at NASA. After three years she returned to RCA, then eventually took a position with the International Maritime Satellite Organization.
Yvonne Brill was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010, and was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama in 2011 (the photo in the first post).
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@mcnees@mastodon.social 2022-12-30 20:22
Yvonne Brill passed away in 2013. The NYT ran an obituary that was roundly criticized as sexist. It mentioned her beef stroganoff, following her husband, and raising her children before acknowledging her work as a rocket scientist. Look at these edits: http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/192021/192137/www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html