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

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and Kazakh scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1971), professor (1971), academic of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (2003), and an Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977).

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

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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

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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

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. *Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977)

References

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