Rufina Afanasyevna Isakova (23 June 1924 - 2016) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

and Kazakh scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1971), professor (1971), academic of the

Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (official name National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan) is the highest scientific organization of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Academy of Sciences was founded on 1 June 1946 on the basis of the ...

(2003), and an Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977).

Education

Isakova was born on June 23, 1924, in Sarkand, Turkestan ASSR, USSR (now

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, Kazakhstan). In 1947, she graduated from the Kazakh Mining and

Metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

Institute (now Satbayev University).

Career and research

From 1947-1991, she was a laboratory assistant, then a scientific researcher, and finally the head of the laboratory of the Institute of Metallurgy and Mining Technology at the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan. In 1991, she became the head scientific consultant in the Institute. Isakova contributed major scientific works in the field of vacuum metallurgy of non-

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metals. She developed highly effective technologies for the complex re-casting of polimetallic raw materials, making adaptations for the metallurgical factories of

Shymkent Shymkent (; Шымкент, Şymkent), known until 1993 as Chimkent ( uz, Çımkent, چىمكېنت; Yañalif: Çimkent ()); russian: Чимкент, translit=Chimkent (), is a city in Kazakhstan. It is near the border with Uzbekistan. It is one ...

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. She was the author of numerous metallurgical publications, and is credited with over 20 patents to her name.

Death

Isakova died in 2016.

Awards and recognition

Order of the Badge of Honour The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the Soviet Union. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding ...

. *Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977)

References

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