Borys Yevhenovych Paton is a Ukrainian scientist, the long-time chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was appointed to this post in 1962 and re-appointed for another term in 2015. Paton did not submit his candidacy for the post in March 2020, which signifies that he is leaving this position.
Biography
He was born in Kyiv in the family of scientist and founder of Paton Institute of Electric Welding in Kyiv, Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton. His mother was a housewife. In 1941, he completed Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and became an engineer. Paton joined the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on November 18, 1958 and is the first person to have been awarded the title of the Hero of Ukraine. He holds a doctoral degree in technical sciences and is known for his works in electric welding. Paton's father, Evgeny Paton, was also famous for his works in electric welding. The first welded bridge in Kyiv, constructed under the supervision of Evgeny Paton, bears his name. In the early 1970s and 1980s Paton had advised the Soviet authorities not to build the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Borys Paton is an author of more than 1000 publications, including 20 monographs and more than 400 inventions.
Research activities
Borys Paton devoted his scientific research to such processes:
development of theoretical foundations for the creation of automatic and semi-automatic machines for electric arc welding and welding power supplies
research for conditions of long arc burning and its regulation
solving the problems of management of welding processes
creation of new functional materials
Under his leadership, electroslag welding was created which became a fundamentally new method of welding. Paton led research on the application of welding heat sources for the improvement of the quality of the smelted metal. On this basis a new branch of metallurgy was founded called special electrometallurgy. He was the first researcher to start intensive research in the field of the use of welding and related technologies in space.
Hero of Ukraine - for dedicated service to science, outstanding achievements in the field of welding and special electrometallurgy, which contributed to the recognition and approval of the authority of Soviet science in the world
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise:
*1st class - for many years untiring service to the Science, outstanding personal contribution to strengthening the scientific and economic potential of Ukraine
*4th class - for outstanding personal contribution to the development of domestic science, strengthening scientific and technological capacities and on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
*5th class - for outstanding personal contribution to the Ukrainian state in the development of science, the approval authority of the national academic school in the world
Hero of Socialist Labour, twice ; this award includes the installation of a bust of the recipient - Paton - in his home town of Kyiv; it was sculpted by A. Skoblikov in 1982 and it is installed in front of academic museums at 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky
*1st class - for outstanding contribution to world science, strengthening the scientific and cultural relations between the states - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States
*2nd class - for outstanding contribution to science
Order of Honour - for outstanding contribution to science and to strengthen friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine
