Boris Paton#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1132 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UKRAINE |
Boris Paton passed away August 19, 2020.
Positions Held
- 2003 Professor Emeritus of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Since 1962 President of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Director-General of E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Fields of Scholarship
- Studies in metallurgy of electrical welding
Honours and Awards
- Hero of Ukraine (26 November 1998) - 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 (the first ever awarded this title)
- Order of Liberty (January 21, 2012)
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise:
- 1st class (27 November 2008) - for many years untiring service to the Science, outstanding personal contribution to strengthening the scientific and economic potential of Ukraine
- 4th class (26 November 2003) - 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 (May 13, 1997) - for outstanding personal contribution to the Ukrainian state in the development of science, the approval authority of the national academic school in the world
- 1993 Honour of the President of Ukraine
- Member of the 27th Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1986-1990)
- Hero of Socialist Labour, twice (1969, 1978); this award includes the installation of a bust of the recipient - Paton - in his home town of Kiev; it was sculpted by A. Skoblikov in 1982 and it is installed in front of academic museums at 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Four Orders of Lenin (1967, 1969, 1975, 1978)
- 1984 Order of the October Revolution
- 1943 Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- 1988 Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland
- 1st class (Russia, 26 November 2008) - for outstanding contribution to world science, strengthening the scientific and cultural relations between the states - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States
- 2nd class (Russia, 27 November 1998) - for outstanding contribution to science
- Order of Honour (Russian Federation, 19 January 2004) - for outstanding contribution to science and to strengthen friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine
- 1957 Lenin Prize
- 1950 Stalin Prize
- State Prize of Ukraine (1970, 2004)
- Award of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1988, 1984)
- 2004 Award "Triumph" (Russia)
- 1968 Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR
- 1983 Honoured Inventor of the USSR
- 1981 Lomonosov Gold Medal (USSR)
- 2003 Korolev Gold Medal
- 2006 Czochralski Gold Medal
- 1998 Honorary Citizen of Mariupol - for outstanding service to Mariupol
- 2010 Global Energy Prize
- Honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
