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April 1st, 2013 
Peter Nolan
Margaret Sullivan, the New York Times’s public editor, said she agreed with
the criticism and the article was later discreetly changed, substituting the
stroganoff reference for “a brilliant rocket scientist”.
Unusually, the paper appeared not to make any public note that the article had
been changed as it usually does with corrections or amendments.
Mrs Brill, who died aged 88, developed a thruster widely used for positioning
satellites in orbit above the earth.
She stepped back from full-time work in the 1950s to raise her three children
but then returned in 1966 and her greatest achievements came in the later
part of her career.
Mrs Brill worked briefly for Nasa in the early 1980s and in 2011 was awarded
the National Medal of Technology by President Barack Obama during a ceremony
at the White House.
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