Evgeny Paton

Professor Evgeny Oskarovich Paton (Russian: Евгений Оскарович Патон, Yevgeni Oskarovich Paton 1870–1953) was an engineer of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union of Ukrainian descent 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.

Evgeny Oskarovich Paton
Евгений Оскарович Патон
Evgeny O. Paton — professor at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, 1910s
Born(1870-03-05)March 5, 1870
Nice, France
DiedAugust 12, 1953(1953-08-12) (aged 83)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma materDresden Technical University (1894)
Institute of Engineer Corp of Transportation (1896)
Known forVice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1945–52)
SpouseNatalie Viktorovna Budde
ChildrenVolodymyr, Borys
Awards
  • Distinguished Scientist and Technician or Artist of Ukrainian SSR (1940)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940)
  • Stalin Prize (1941)
  • Order of the Red Star (1942)
  • Order of Lenin (1942, 1943)
  • Hero of Socialist Labour (1943)
  • Order of the Patriotic War (1945)
Scientific career
FieldsWelding
InstitutionsE. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, International Association of Science Academies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Signature
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