Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova

Ksenia Razumova
Ksenia Razumova and Yevgeny Esipchuk in the T-10 tokamak control room during the spring 1988 campaign
Born (1931-01-23) 23 January 1931
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow University
Known forPlasma, Tokamak, Nuclear Fusion, Magnetic confinement fusion
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsKurchatov Institute

Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova (Russian: Ксения Александровна Разумова; also transliterated Xenia Razumova; born 23 January 1931) is a Russian physicist. She graduated from the Physical Faculty of Moscow University in 1955 and took a position at the then called Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow, then USSR. She defended her Ph.D. in 1966, was Candidate in Physical and Mathematical sciences in 1967, and became Doctor of Sciences in 1984. She is laboratory head at the Institute of Nuclear Fusion, Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute. Since the beginning she is actively involved plasma physics in research on the tokamak line of Magnetic confinement fusion.