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Yevhen Paton, prominent Ukrainian scientist in the field of bridge-building and welding, was born in Nice in 1870 in the family of a Russian ambassador and received his education abroad. He graduated from the Politechnical Institute in Dresden, and later from the Institute or Engineers of Means of Communication in St. Petersburg.

From 1904 till 1939, with several breaks, Paton was a professor as the Politechnical Institute of Kyiv. He made a valuable contribution to the science of designing bridges, the technology of their building and the methods of testing them. He was the author of several fundamental manuals on the building of bridges, and some original projects for bridges and overpasses.

Later Paton got interested in welding. He wrote a great deal of works in the field of welding. He founded the Ukrainian school of welding.

One of the longest bridges across the Dnepr (1.543 km long) is named after him. In 1930 Paton organized the Research Institute of Electro-welding at the Academy of Sciences.

Nowdays the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine includes many outstanding scientists and research workers famous for their discoveries. Great success has achieved by the Paton Research Institute of Electric Welding, the Research Institute of Cybernetics, Superhard Material, and others.

Paton's son, Boris (born 1918), continued his father's career. He became an academician, too. He worked out new methods of welding and laid the foundations of welding in outer space.

Word List:

1.	prominent	['prominənt]	видатний
2.	to graduate	['græʤʊeɪt]	закінчити (інститут)
3.	a valuable contribution	['væljʊ(ə)b(ə)l ͵kɒntri'bju:ʃ(ə)n]	цінний вклад
4.	designing bridges	[dɪ'zaɪnɪŋ brɪʤ]	проектування мостів
5.	author	['ɔːθə]	автор
6.	manual	['mænjuəl]	посібник, довідник
7.	original project		початковий (дійсний) проект
8.	overpass	['əuvəpɑ:s]	шляхопровід
9.	a great deal of		безліч, велика кількість
10.	to found	[faund]	створювати
11.	outer space		зовнішній космос
12.	ambassador	[æm'bæsədə]	посол
13.	abroad	[ə'brɔːd]	за кордоном
14.	to include		вміщувати, містити у собі, включати
15.	discoverу		відкриття
16.	to achieve	[ə'ʧi:v]	досягати, добиватися

2. Answer the followings questions:

1. Are there a lot of outstanding people famous for their contribution to our science?

2. Which Ukrainian scientists do you know?

3. What discoveries of Yevhen Paton do you know?

4. Who was the first to apply electro-welding in bridge construction?

5. When did Yevhen Paton organize the Research Institute of Electro-welding at the Academy of Sciences?

6. Which scientists made outstanding progress in nuclear physics, chemistry and other branches?

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