Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova

Since the beginning she is actively involved plasma physics in research on the tokamak line of Magnetic confinement fusion.

[3] Experiments carried out by her at this tokamak, along with results obtained on the T-3 and T-4 tokamaks, convinced the scientific community that the pessimistic forecasts for the future of magnetic confinement based on the Bohm formula[4] were unfounded.

In 1971, she was awarded the USSR State Prize for creating and investigating high temperature thermonuclear plasmas in tokamaks.

Razumova was the first to implement a method to measure the plasma energy based on the diamagnetic effect, still in use these days.

[9][10][11] Razumova is as active now as she was in her younger years, and is always eager to discuss new ideas and experiments.

From left to right: S.V.Mirnov, E.P.Gorbunov, A.M.Us, V.S.Strelkov, L.A.Artsimovitch, **K.A.Razumova** , A.K.Spiridonov, V.S.Mukhovatov, V.D.Shafranov and D.P.Ivanov – awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1971, in front of the T-4 tokamak, as shown in J. Plasma Phys. (2016), vol. 82, 515820102, with the permission of Cambridge University Press.