Evgeny Paton
Ukrainian and Soviet scientist and engineer (1870–1953)
Professor Yevhen Oksarovych Paton (Ukrainian: Євген Оксарович Патон; 5 March 1870 – 12 August 1953), also known as Evgeny Oskarovich Paton (Russian: Евгений Оскарович Патон), was a Russian Empire and Soviet Union engineer who established in 1934 the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1953). He was the father of Borys Paton.
Early career
Born in 1870 in Nice, France, he studied at the Dresden Technical University (graduated in 1894), and at the Petersburg Institute of Railway Roads (graduated in 1896). He designed the structure of the train station in Dresden and was a lecturer at the Moscow Engineering College of Railway Roads (1889–1904). Paton was a professor at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Chairman of the Bridge Department from 1904 to 1938. In 1929 he organized a welding laboratory and the Electric Welding Committee. In 1934 Paton founded the Electric Welding Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in Kyiv. His idea of all-welding received support by the then-head of the Ukrainian Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev. From 1945 to 1952 he was a Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Welding research
Paton was a pioneer researcher of joining and welding technology.
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