November 27, 2019 (UNIAN) A world-renowned outstanding scientist in the field of welding,
metallurgy and metal technology, the President of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine, Borys Paton is celebrating today, November 27, his 101st
birthday.
Borys Paton. Courtesy ZN.ua
He was born in Kyiv on November 27,
1918 in the family of scientist and founder of Paton Institute of Electric
Welding in Kyiv, Professor Evgen Paton. His mother was a housewife. In 1941, he
completed Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and became an engineer. Borys Paton joined
the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on November 18, 1958 and became
its president in 1962. Currently, Borys Paton is the oldest president of the
Academy of Sciences in the world. He made an incredibly important contribution
to metal welding technology. Borys Paton created technologies for welding under
water, in outer space and automatic welding of tank armor.
In the early 1970s
and 1980s Borys Paton had advised the Soviet authorities not to
build the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It is well
known, that Soviet politicians did not consider the prominent academician’s
opinion. Now the whole world knows what catastrophic consequences this led to.
This is an aerial photo of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant taken two or three days after the 1986 explosion that spread clouds of radioactive dust across the western part of the Soviet Union and Europe.
(Volodymir Repik / AP)
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