Boris E. Paton is an outstanding scientist in the field of welding, metallurgy and technology of metals and materials science, prominent public figure and talented organiser of science, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, honoured scientist and technologist of the Ukrainian SSR, laureate of the Lenin Prize and State Prizes of the USSR and Ukraine, Twice Hero of the Socialist Labour of the USSR, Hero of Ukraine, participant in the Great Patriotic War, and liquidator of accident at the Chernobyl NPP.
Together with his father Evgeny Oskarovich Paton, Boris Paton established the worldknown Paton scientific school.
The international authority of B.E. Paton is a result of his versatile and extraordinarily fruitful scientific and engineering activity, and of his great effort to use results of the fundamental research for solving problems of the society.
