Rufina Isakova
{{Short description|Soviet and Kazakh scientist}}{{Infobox person
| name = Rufina Isakova
| birth_name = Rufina Afanasyevna Isakova
| birth_date = 23 June 1924
| birth_place = Sarkand, Turkestan ASSR, USSR
| death_date = 2016
| death_place = Kazakhstan
| alma_mater = Satbayev University
| occupation = Scientist
}}
Rufina Afanasyevna Isakova (23 June 1924 - 2016) was a Soviet and Kazakh scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1971), professor (1971), academic of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (2003),{{cite web|title=Члены Академии Список академиков НАН РК|url=http://www.akademiyanauk.kz/members|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218223820/http://www.akademiyanauk.kz/members|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-18|publisher=Архив страницы со списком академиков с оф. сайта НАН РК|accessdate=2018-12-31}} and an Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977).{{Citation |last1=Partnership |first1=English: Kazakh Encyclopediasy Limited Liability |title=Русский: Казахстан. Национальная энциклопедия |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Kazakhstan_National_encyclopedia_(ru)_-_Vol_2_of_5_(2005).pdf&page=496 |access-date=2022-12-12 |last2=Book |first2=Start this}}
Education
Isakova was born on June 23, 1924, in Sarkand, Turkestan ASSR, USSR (now Almaty Region, Kazakhstan). In 1947, she graduated from the Kazakh Mining and Metallurgy 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-ferrous metals. She developed highly effective technologies for the complex re-casting of polimetallic raw materials, making adaptations for the metallurgical factories of Shymkent, Oskemen.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}
She was the author of numerous metallurgical publications,{{cite web|title=Исакова, Руфина Афанасьевна|url=https://search.rsl.ru/ru/search#q=author:(исакова%20руфина%20афанасьевна)|publisher=Оф. сайт РГБ|accessdate=2018-12-31}} and is credited with over 20 patents to her name.{{cite web|title=Исакова Руфина Афанасьевна|url=http://kzpatents.com/patents/isakova-rufina-afanasevna|publisher=База патентов Казахстана KZPATENTS.COM|accessdate=2019-01-01}}{{cite web|title=ИСАКОВА РУФИНА АФАНАСЬЕВНА|url=https://patentdb.ru/author/979255|publisher=PatentDB.ru — База патентов РФ на изобретения и промышленные образцы|accessdate=2019-01-01}}
Death
Isakova died in 2016.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Awards and recognition
- Order of the Badge of Honour.
- Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977)
References
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