Barbara Abraham-Shrauner

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Barbara Wayne Abraham-Shrauner is an American physicist, applied mathematician, and electrical engineer, known for her research on

Alfvén waves, observation of the solar wind, and applications to the plasma etching of semiconductors,[1][2] as well as on hidden symmetries and nonlocal symmetries in differential equations.[3] She is retired as a professor of electrical and systems engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.[4]

Education and career

Abraham-Shrauner graduated from the University of Colorado in 1956. She earned a master's degree from Harvard University in 1957 and completed her Ph.D. there in 1962.[4]

She joined Washington University in St. Louis faculty in 1966, after postdoctoral research at the Université libre de Bruxelles and NASA Ames Research Center, and retired from full-time service in 2003 at Washington University, where she continues to hold an affiliation as a part-time Senior Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering.[4]

Recognition

Abraham-Shrauner was named a

Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1999, after a nomination from the APS Division of Plasma Physics, "for important theoretical contributions to a broad range of plasma topics, including: space plasmas, nonlinear dynamics, and plasma processing".[1]
She is a part of the Barbara Abraham Shrauner Endowed Scholarship in Physics to award undergraduate students that are involved in pursuing Physics or Engineering Physics.

Personal life

Abraham-Shrauner was married to James Ely Shrauner (1933–2015), a professor of physics at Washington University.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b APS Fellow Archive: Division of Plasma Physics, 1999, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-09-22
  2. ISBN 9780195359145
  3. JSTOR 43666043
  4. ^ a b c Barbara Abraham-Shrauner, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, retrieved 2020-09-22
  5. doi:10.1063/pt.5.6158
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