Rufina Isakova

Rufina Afanasyevna Isakova (23 June 1924 - 2016) was a Soviet and Kazakh scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, 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 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. and is credited with over 20 patents to her name.

Death Isakova died in 2016.

Awards and recognition Order of the Badge of Honour (20 July 1984) Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977)