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Borys Yevhenovych Paton was a Ukrainian scientist and a long-time chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was appointed to this post in 1962 and held it until his death. Paton, like his father Evgeny Paton, was famous for his work in electric welding.
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science · Ukrainian scientist (1918–2020) · metallurgist · engineer · politician · inventor · university teacher · researcher · mechanical engineer · also Borys Paton, Boris Yevgenyevich Paton, Borys Yevhenovych Paton, B E Paton, Boris E. Paton, Paton
Born 14 November 1918 · Died 19 August 2020 · Q2704774
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Died 2020-08-19.
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Declared he was against decommunization policies
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Won medal of 25 years of Ukrainian independence (2016).
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Published “Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids” in Nature Materials — cited 2,268 times.
Awarded Order of Merit, 1st class (2013).
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Awarded Order of Liberty (2012).
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Published “Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data” in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry — cited 4,123 times.
Published “Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction” in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems — cited 1,125 times.
Published “Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders” in Nature — cited 1,734 times.
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (2008).
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Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (2008).
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Published “Inflammatory and Coagulation Biomarkers and Mortality in Patients with HIV Infection” in PLoS Medicine — cited 1,377 times.
Awarded Order of Honour (2004).
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Awarded State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2004).
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Awarded Order of Friendship of Tajikistan (2004).
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Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class (2003).
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Awarded Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2003).
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Awarded Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2002).
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Published “Cardiac Dysfunction in the Trastuzumab Clinical Trials Experience” in Journal of Clinical Oncology — cited 1,274 times.
Published “Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 9,361 times.
Published “Multinational Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Humanized Anti-HER2 Monoclonal Antibody in Women Who Have HER2-Overexpressing Metastatic Breast Cancer That Has Progressed After Chemotherapy for Metastatic Disease” in Journal of Clinical Oncology — cited 2,180 times.
Awarded Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State (1998).
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Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (1998).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1998).
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Paton was the first person to have been awarded the title of the Hero of Ukraine
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Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (1997).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1996).
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Awarded Honored badge of merit of the President of Ukraine (1993).
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Awarded Order of Friendship (1988).
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Awarded Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize (1988).
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Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1988).
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Awarded Order of Cyril and Methodius (1985).
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1984).
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And it is installed in front of academic museums at 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky
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Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1980).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1978).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1978).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1978).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1969).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1969).
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Awarded Honoured worker in science and technology of the Ukrainian SSR (1968).
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Earned Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1968).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1967).
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Awarded Lenin Prize (1957).
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Became head of the Paton Institute of Electric Welding
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Paton joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 3rd degree (1950).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1943).
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Borys Paton completed the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and became an engineer
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And 1942, Paton worked and designed electric circuits at the Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No
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Studied at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1941).
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Born 1918-11-14.
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