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 delights us to this day. One of such well-known scientists of our country is Evgeny Oskarovich Paton, whose biography will be studied in detail in the article.
General information
The future most talented engineer and innovator was born on March 4, 1870 in the French city of Nice. His father was a Russian consul and a retired colonel of the Guards. In addition to Evgeniy, there were four boys and two girls in the family.
From the earliest years, Evgeny Oskarovich Paton was fond of the practical application of the exact sciences. The young man was not interested in dry numbers, but was attracted by those things that were obtained as a result on the basis of these calculations.
Education
After the hero of the article graduated from high school in Stuttgart, Germany, he decided to enter the Dresden Polytechnic Institute. Eugene graduated from this educational institution in1894. Moreover, already in the last years of this university, Evgeny Oskarovich was involved in solving many complex technical problems and implementing projects. Having received a diploma, Paton was in great demand, as he was invited to work by many German companies, but he chose to return to his historical homeland - to the Russian Empire.
The fatherland did not meet the young guy too warmly: his German diploma was not quoted in Russia, and he was forced to become a student at the St. 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, having successfully defended his thesis on a new method for calculating farms.
Work activity
Leaving the walls of the Russian institute, a talented engineer became an employee of the technical department of the track service on the Nikolaev railway. In his post, Paton was engaged in the design of bridges and metal ceilings. The man gave this work for almost ten years. 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 Zworykin.
During this period of his life, the scientist managed quite a lot: he designed bridges for Tbilisi, two bridges across the Ros River, one bridge for pedestrians across Petrovsky Alley. Several more tutorials have also been released.
DuringDuring the First World War, 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 Kyiv, despite the fact that the city changed hands several times between the warring parties. Moreover, Yevgeny Oskarovich lost his brother, who was shot, but this tragedy did not force the engineer to emigrate.
In 1920, Paton created the Kyiv bridge testing station, on the basis of which students received the necessary practical experience.
In 1929, the outstanding scientist was nominated as a candidate member of 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, this industry was not yet highly developed in the USSR, and the scientist personally developed a special program to solve the problems of welding. Due to the fact that Soviet universities did not train welders, Paton created a department of welding on the basis of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which he himself headed. In 1934, it was the laboratory of Evgeny Oskarovich that turned out to be the first and only one in the world at that time, where all the subtleties of welding were studied in detail.
In 1932, an academician developed an automatic welding head for 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 electric welding underflux. And on the basis of the Dniprovsky plant of metal structures, Yevgeny Oskarovich's old dream came true - bridge building and welding were tightly intertwined, as the enterprise began producing beams for bridges of all-welded construction.
Evgeny Oskarovich Paton and Stalinism is a separate issue, but even the era of total purges did not touch the scientist. During the Great Patriotic War, the academician worked in Nizhny Tagil, where he was able to master the automatic welding of tank armor, for which he received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
End of Life
Yevgeny Oskarovich Paton, after returning to Kyiv, again became at the helm of the Electric Welding Institute. In 1952, the scientist completed work on the creation of an automobile bridge across the Neman River. In 1950-1953, the academician built a bridge across the Dnieper without the use of rivets.
The legendary professor died on August 12, 1953 and was interred in Kyiv.
