I find it kind of hard to believe that the Times would start an obituary for a man this way.
This is Yvonne Brill. She died Wednesday at the age of 88.
Source: Walter P. Reuther Library / via: reuther.wayne.edu
Brill was literally a rocket scientist. In the 1970s, she created a design that prevented communications satellites from slipping out of orbit. President Obama gave her an award in 2011 for her pioneering work.
Here is how the New York Times described Brill in an obituary that was published online Saturday.
It reads:
She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. “The world’s best mom,” her son Matthew said.
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 from slipping out of their orbits.
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