Presentation “Inventors and Their Inventions”  Виконала учениця 11 класу Тананаєва Ірина

Professor Yevhen Oscarovich Paton was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer. He was a welding scientist and constructor technologist.

 Paton is also considered to be the father of electric welding in USSR. In 1929 he organized the laboratory of electric welding technology,which in 1934 became Institute of Electric Welding.

 He was a director of this laboratory until his death. Today the institute bears his name.  Yevhen Paton served as Vice- President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1945 to 1952.

Yevhen Paton was the first to apply electro-welding in bridge-constraction. Under his guidance a welded bridge was built across the Dnieper river in Kyiv.

Borys Paton, son Yevhen Paton, continue his father’s work. He has done much to develop his father ideas.

 In 1964 the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences established the Paton prize for outstanding contributions in the field of materials science, particularly welding technology.