Vera Nikolaevna Kublanovskaya (née Totubalina; November 21, 1920 – February 21, 2012 [1]) was a Russian mathematician noted for her work on developing computational methods for solving spectral problems of algebra. She proposed the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors in 1961, which has been named as one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century.[2] This algorithm was proposed independently by the English computer scientist John G.F. Francis in 1961.