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]
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 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.
^ abc"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