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Barbara Wayne Abraham-Shrauner is an American physicist, applied mathematician, and electrical engineer, known for her research on magnetohydrodynamics and plasma phenomena, including mathematical modeling of shocks and Alfvén waves, observation of the solar wind, and applications to the plasma etching of semiconductors, as well as on hidden symmetries and nonlocal symmetries in differential equations. She is retired as a professor of electrical and systems engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.