A truly outstanding personality remains in the memory of people even many years after his own death. This is especially true of such persons whose work pleases us to this day. One of such famous scientists of our country is Evgeny Oskarovich Paton, whose biography will be studied in detail in the article.
general information
The future talented engineer and innovator was born on March 4, 1870 in the French city of Nice. His father was a Russian consul and was a retired guards colonel. In addition to Eugene, four boys and two girls grew up in the family.
From an early age, Evgeni Oskarovich Paton was fond of the practical application of exact sciences. The young man was not interested in dry numbers, but was attracted by those things that were obtained as a result of these calculations.
Education
After the hero of the article graduated from high school in German Stuttgart, he decided to enter the Dresden Polytechnic Institute. This educational institution Eugene graduated in 1894. Moreover, already in the last courses of this university, Evgeni Oskarovich was involved in solving many complex technical problems and implementing projects. Having received a diploma, Paton was snapped up, as he was invited to work by many German companies, but he chose for himself the return to his historical homeland - to the Russian Empire.
The fatherland did not meet the young man very warmly: his German diploma was not quoted in Russia, and he was forced to become a student at the Petersburg Institute of Railways, where he passed 12 exams and 5 course projects in a year. Ultimately, Evgeny Oskarovich Paton, whose photo can be seen in the article, graduated from the university, successfully defending his thesis on the new methodology for calculating farms.
Labor activity
Having left the walls of the Russian institute, a talented engineer became an employee of the technical department of the track service on the Nikolaev railway. At his post, Paton was engaged in the design of bridges and metal ceilings. The man gave nearly ten years to this work. In parallel, he was a lecturer at the Moscow Engineering School, published a two-volume textbook, and even received the title of professor.
In 1904, Evgeny Oskarovich Paton headed the department of bridges at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute at the personal invitation of the then rector Zvorykin.
During this period of his life, the scientist managed quite a lot: he designed bridges for Tbilisi, two bridges over the Ros River, one bridge for pedestrians across the Petrovskaya Alley. Several more textbooks have also been published.
During World War I, Paton worked actively with the military. Thanks to him, the Russian army received special collapsible bridges - both highway and railway. And even the civil war did not force the scientist to leave Kiev, despite the fact that the city several times passed from hand to hand of the warring parties. Moreover, Yevgeny Oskarovich lost his sibling, who was shot, but this tragedy did not force the engineer to emigrate.
In 1920, Paton created the Kiev Bridge Testing Station, on the basis of which students received the necessary practical experience.
In 1929, an outstanding scientist was nominated as a candidate for membership in the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Innovator
In 1929, the biography of Paton Evgeny Oskarovich was replenished with another interesting fact - he became interested in electric welding of metals. At that time in the USSR, this industry was not yet highly developed, and the scientist personally developed a special program to solve the problems of welding. Due to the fact that Soviet universities did not prepare welders, Paton created a welding department on the basis of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, which he himself headed. In 1934, it was Evgeny Oskarovich’s laboratory that turned out to be the first and only at that time in the world where all the details of welding were studied in detail.
In 1932, the academician developed an automatic welding head to perform open arc welding. And two years later, the scientist created the first Welding Institute on the planet. At the age of 70, Paton discovered the secrets of submerged arc welding. And on the basis of the Dneprovsky plant of metal structures, Yevgeny Oskarovich’s old dream came true - bridge building and welding are tightly intertwined, as the company began producing beams for bridges of all-welding construction.
Evgeni Oskarovich Paton and Stalinism are a separate issue, but even the era of total purges did not concern the scientist. During the Great Patriotic War, the academician worked in Nizhny Tagil, where he was able to master automatic welding of tank armor, for which he received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
End of life
Evgeni Oskarovich Paton, after returning to Kiev, again became at the helm of the Institute of Electric Welding. In 1952, the scientist completed work on the creation of an automobile bridge over the Neman River. In 1950-1953, the academician built a bridge across the Dnieper without rivets.
The legendary professor passed away on August 12, 1953 and was interred in Kiev.