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Yvonne Brill

1924 - 2013

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Yvonne Madelaine Brill (née Claeys; December 30, 1924 – March 27, 2013) was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps today’s satellites in orbit, and holds a patent for its invention. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yvonne Brill has received more than 77,249 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yvonne Brill is the 342nd most popular inventor (down from 327th in 2019), the 425th most popular biography from Canada (up from 429th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Yvonne Brill ranks 342 out of 354. Before her are Hary Gunarto, Bill Atkinson, John Shepherd-Barron, Dan Bricklin, Arthur Wynne, and Patricia Bath. After her are Gary Fisher, Kamil Tolon, Granville Woods, Kazimierz Prószyński, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, and Karl Jatho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Yvonne Brill ranks 349. Before her are Slim Harpo, Vladimir Bogomolov, Attilio Giovannini, Siiri Rantanen, Mary Ford, and Humberto Fernández-Morán. After her are Pierre Adam, César Ruminski, George Amick, Robert Körner, Stanley Jaki, and F. Sionil José. Among people deceased in 2013, Yvonne Brill ranks 343. Before her are Ersilio Tonini, Gerard Cieślik, Jan Zwartkruis, Judit Temes, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Lucyna Winnicka. After her are Narendra Dabholkar, Denys de La Patellière, Alfonso Lara, Eddi Arent, Danièle Dupré, and Armen Alchian.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Yvonne Brill ranks 425 out of 1,350. Before her are Jason Gray-Stanford (1970), Rick Danko (1943), Josephine Crowell (1859), Roy Dupuis (1963), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), and Maurice Prendergast (1858). After her are Joshua Jackson (1978), Tamara Taylor (1970), August Ames (1994), Kathleen Robertson (1973), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), and Marcel Dionne (1951).

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Among INVENTORS In Canada

Among inventors born in Canada, Yvonne Brill ranks 5. Before her are James Naismith (1861), Reginald Fessenden (1866), Gerald Bull (1928), and Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907).

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