Vera Yurásova researched the interactions of atomic particles with solids

4 August 1928, in Moscow (Russia) - 11 January 2023, in Moscow (Russia)

Vera Yevgeny Yurassova, daughter of Evgeniy Yurasov, head of the Department of Aviation Radiocommunications at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, studied at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University from 1946 to 1951. Under the supervision of Dmitri Zyornov, he did his final project entitled ‘Particle motion and focusing of a trakhotron’ at the Institute of Automatic Telemechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

In 1951, after graduating, he started working at the Department of Electronic Optics of the Physics Faculty of Moscow University.

In 1958, on this occasion, under the supervision of Grigoriy Spivak, he completed his doctorate on ‘Processes under sputtering of single and polycrystals of metals’. However, she did not become a Doctor of Science until 1975 when she completed her work on ‘Emission of atomic particles under ion bombardment of single crystals’.

Throughout his research, he had the opportunity to interact with and learn from other scientists working at the Physics Faculty of Moscow University, such as Aleksey Shubnikov, Sergey Vekshinskiy, Lev Artsimovich, and Spivak himself. He later worked closely with the theorist Oleg Firsov, with whom he coincided in the Council of Plasma Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vera played an active role in several scientific councils at the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Higher Education, as well as in the organising and programming committees of many international conferences. She was a member of the Vacuum Technical and Applications Society and of the editorial board of the international journal ‘Vacuum’.