Evgenia Andreevna Zabolotskaya (1935–2020) was a Russian-American physicist known for her contributions to

nonlinear acoustics Nonlinear acoustics (NLA) is a branch of physics and acoustics dealing with sound waves of sufficiently large amplitudes. Large amplitudes require using full systems of governing equations of fluid dynamics (for sound waves in liquids and gas ...

. the Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya equation and Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov equation in nonlinear acoustics are named in part for her.

Education and career

Zabolotskaya studied physics at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

, completing her PhD there in 1968 under the supervision of

Rem Khokhlov Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (russian: link=no, Рем Викторович Хохлов; July 15, 1926, in Livny – August 8, 1977, in Moscow) was a Soviet physicist and university teacher, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of the foun ...

. After working at the

Andreyev Acoustics Institute The N. N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute, (also the Andreyev Acoustics Institute or simply the Acoustics Institute) is a Russian research facility dedicated to the study of acoustics. It was established in 1953 in Moscow, as part of the Lebedev Physic ...

, she returned to Moscow State University in 1971, appointed to the biology department. In 1982 she moved again, to the of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. After meeting and beginning to work with

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

mechanical engineering professors David Blackstock and Mark Hamilton, starting in 1982, Zabolotskaya moved to the University of Texas in 1991. From 1997 to 2000 she was on leave from the university to work at a start-up company in Virginia. She retired in 2015. She died on June 2, 2020 in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label=Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. ...

Recognition

Zabolotskaya won the

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

in 1985. She is the 2017 winner of the

Silver Medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

in Physical Acoustics of the

Acoustical Society of America The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is an international scientific society founded in 1929 dedicated to generating, disseminating and promoting the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications. The Society is primarily a voluntary orga ...

. She was honored by the Women in Acoustics Committee of the Acoustical Society of America shortly before her death and highlighted in a
article on work-parenting harmony.

References

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