Vera Yurasova
Vera Yurasova is a Russian physicist who has contributed to the study of the processes of interactions between ion beams and solid surfaces, both their experimental characteristics and their physical mechanisms. Life. Vera Yurasova was born in Moscow on 4 August 1928. Her father, Evgeniy Yurasov, was the Head of the Department of Radio Communication in Aviation in the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. Her husband, Anatoliy Gorshkov (1928–1997), was also a physicist and a Doctor of Science. Vera Yurasova studied at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University from 1946 to 1951. She did her diploma project  – "Movement and focusing of particles in a trakhotron" – in the Institute of Automatic Telemechanics of Academy of Science of the USSR, under the supervision of Professor Dmitri Zyornov. After finishing her studies in 1951, she started work at Moscow University, at the department of electron optics, in the Faculty of Physics. In 1958, she completed her PhD on "Processes under cathodic sputtering of metal mono- and poly-crystals", under supervision of Professor Grigoriy Spivak. In 1975, she became a Doctor of Science for her work on "Emission of atomic particles under ion bombardment of single crystals". In the early days  of her research work, she regularly discussed her scientific results with key scientists, who were at the time working at the Physics Faculty of Moscow University: Aleksey Shubnikov, Sergey Vekshinskiy, Lev Artsimovich. Along with Spivak, she counts these as her teachers. Later, she had particularly close scientific links with the theorist Oleg Firsov, with whom she also worked in the Russian Academy of Sciences Council for Plasma Physics. Scientific work. These and her other scientific results are highly valued in scientific papers and books. See, for example, N.V. Pleshivdtsev "Cathodic Sputtering" (Atomizdat 1963) and R. Behrisch "Sputtering by Particle Bombardment ,II" (Springer–Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1983). Scientific Committees. She has played an active role on a number of scientific councils in the Academy of Science and the Ministry of Higher Education, and in the organising and programme committees of many international conferences. She is a member of the International Bohmische Physical Society (since 1992), and the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications — IUVSTA (since 1992). She is the member of the editorial board of the international journal “Vacuum” (Elsevier) since 1991. Her hobbies include music, painting and photography. Papers. Author of over 450 scientific works. These  include: