Rozetta Zhilina

Rozetta Zhilina
Rozetta Zhilina
Born	Rozetta Andreyevna Zhilina; 8 June 1933; Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died	11 December 2003 (aged 70); Snezhinsk, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Spouse	Viktor Suchkov
Awards	USSR State Prize (1988)
	Scientific career
Fields	Algorithms in ballistics

Rozetta Andreyevna Zhilina (Russian: Розе́тта Андре́евна Жи́лина; 8 June 1933, Leningrad – 11 December 2003, Snezhinsk) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computer scientist.

Education

She graduated from the Mathematics and Mechanics department of the Leningrad State University in 1956, where one of her classmates was Anatoly Vershik.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She worked at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics in the mathematical section.^[1]

After World War II, the Soviet Union began an ambitious program to develop their own computing technology, creating systems to rival those in the United States. Computer science research was often kept secret during the ongoing Cold War, but was seen as an important field nonetheless. From the 1960s to the 1980s, women represented half of the students in this area in Soviet universities and they later went on to work in the field, either as programmers or system designers.^[2]

Zhilina developed algorithms and computer programs for solving problems in physics, mechanics and the non-stationary thermal conductivity of complex nuclear weapons. Under her leadership, computer programs were developed to solve problems in the field of optimal trajectories of nuclear weapons, including their ballistics.^[3]

Awards and honours

She was a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1988), the Medal "For Labour Valour" (1962) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975).^[1]

Death

Zhilina died in Snezhinsk in 2003,^[1] and is interred in the town cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Жилина Розетта Андреевна". Encyclopedia of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
^ Khenner, Evgeniy K. (2019), Frieze, Carol; Quesenberry, Jeria L. (eds.), "Women in Computing: The Situation in Russia", Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 246–260, doi:10.1017/9781108609081.014, ISBN 978-1-108-49742-8, S2CID 211410842, retrieved 11 May 2021
^ "Роль женщин в ИТ незаслуженно преуменьшена. Исправляем ситуацию". TAdviser. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.

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[chel-1] "Жилина Розетта Андреевна". Encyclopedia of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Retrieved 28 October 2018.

[2] Khenner, Evgeniy K. (2019), Frieze, Carol; Quesenberry, Jeria L. (eds.), "Women in Computing: The Situation in Russia", Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 246–260, doi:10.1017/9781108609081.014, ISBN 978-1-108-49742-8, S2CID 211410842, retrieved 11 May 2021

[tadviser-3] "Роль женщин в ИТ незаслуженно преуменьшена. Исправляем ситуацию". TAdviser. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.

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