Borys Paton, the Ukrainian engineer who chaired the National Academy of Sciences for 58 years, has died in Kyiv at 101.

Borys Paton, the Ukrainian engineer who chaired the National Academy of Sciences for 58 years, has died in Kyiv at 101. Paton became director of the Yevhen Paton Institute of Electric Welding in 1953, the year his father, Yevhen, inaugurated Kyiv’s Paton Bridge. The world’s first all-welded bridge, Paton bridge is the oldest and longest of Kyiv’s five road bridges across the Dnipro.