Evgenia Andreevna Zabolotskaya (1935–2020) was a Russian-American physicist known for her contributions to nonlinear acoustics.[1] The Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya equation and the Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov equation in nonlinear acoustics are named in part for her.[2][3]
Evgenia A. Zabolotskaya | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Russian-American |
| Awards | USSR State Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Rem Khokhlov |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Physics |
| Sub-discipline | Nonlinear acoustics |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow State University Andreyev Acoustics Institute |
Education and career
editZabolotskaya studied physics at Moscow State University, completing her PhD there in 1968 under the supervision of Rem Khokhlov. After working at the Andreyev Acoustics Institute, she returned to Moscow State University in 1971, appointed to the biology department. In 1982, she moved again, to the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[4]
After meeting and beginning to work with University of Texas at Austin 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.[4]
She died on June 2, 2020, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[1]
Recognition
editZabolotskaya won the USSR State Prize in 1985. She is the 2017 winner of the Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics of the Acoustical Society of America.[4]
She was honored by the Women in Acoustics Committee of the Acoustical Society of America[5] shortly before her death and highlighted in an article on work-parenting harmony.
References
edit- ^ a b Hamilton, Mark F.; Sapozhnikov, Oleg A. (Fall 2020), "Obituary Evgenia Andreevna Zabolotskaya, 1935–2020", Acoustics Today
- ^ Rudenko, O. V. (July 2010), "The 40th anniversary of the Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya equation", Acoustical Physics, 56 (4): 457–466, Bibcode:2010APhy...56..457R, doi:10.1134/s1063771010040093, S2CID 120734204
- ^ Rozanova, Anna (2007), "The Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznetsov equation", Comptes Rendus Mathématique, 344 (5): 337–342, doi:10.1016/j.crma.2007.01.010, MR 2308123
- ^ a b c "Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal In Physical Acoustics 2017: Evgenia Zabolotskaya", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142 (4): 2653, October 2017, Bibcode:2017ASAJ..142.2653., doi:10.1121/1.5015982
- ^ "2019 Fall Luncheon Honoree". Women In Acoustics. Retrieved November 28, 2021.