Borys Paton

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Borys Paton Jewhenowytsch ( Ukrainian Борис Євгенович Патон , Russian Борис Евгеньевич Патон * 27. November 1918 in Kiev , Ukrainian State ; † 19th August 2020 ) was a Ukrainian scientist , specialist in the field of electric welding and president of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine .

Paton's father Yevgeny Oskarowitsch Paton (1870–1953) was the inventor of arc welding and an engineer for bridge construction. In 1941 Paton graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and worked for a year at the "Krasnoye Sormowo" plant in Gorky and then at the Institute for Electrofusion of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Kiev, which his father directed . After the death of his father, Paton took over the post of director of the institute, which is now named after his father. In 1962 he was also elected President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR . At the same time he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Paton was awarded the Stalin and Lenin Prize , among others . He was also awarded the Order of Lenin four times and twice the title Hero of Socialist Labor . He was also a holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 2nd and 1st class and the Order of Freedom of Ukraine . Borys Paton was the first holder of the title Hero of Ukraine .

In 1967 Paton was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in the GDR . From 1980 he was an external member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR until its dissolution in 1992. The asteroid of the middle main belt (2727) Paton is named after him and his father Evgeni Paton. He died at the age of 101 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to his passport details, Paton was born on November 27th. In the baptismal register of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene on Shulyavka in Kiev , the date of birth is 1 November 1918 Julian / 14. November 1918 Gregorian and the date of baptism is November 16 (July).
  2. ↑ Помер Борис Патон. In: Українська правда. August 19, 2020, accessed August 19, 2020 (Ukrainian). }
    Illia Ponomarenko: Borys Paton, patriarch of Ukrainian science, dies at 101. In: KyivPost.com . August 19, 2020, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 6, 1967, p. 4.
  4. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , p. 186 (English, link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 9, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1992): “1979 SO 9 . Discovered 1979 Sept. 22 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
  5. ↑ Farewell ceremony with Borys Paton to take place August 22. In: 112.international. August 21, 2020, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Paton, Borys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paton, Borys Jewhenowytsch (full name); Патон, Борис Євгенович (Ukrainian); Патон, Борис Евгеньевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian scientist, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: November 27, 1918 or November 14, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian state
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2020
Place of death Kiev