Paton is the author of fundamental research studying the interaction between welding sources of heating and molten metal that serves as the basis for a new field in metallurgy — special electrometallurgy.

The scientist created new technologies of receiving unique construction materials, and materials with special coating.

Paton is author and co-author of more than 1,200 publications, including 20 scientific monographs, more than 720 inventions (500 foreign patents).

Titles

Academician (full member) of Academy of Europe (1992), International Academy of Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts of the USA (1997), National Academy of Applied Sciences of Russia (1997) and other scientific and educational institutions, member of National Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria (1969), Czechoslovakia (1973), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1975), the GDR (1980), Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1986), Belorussia (1995), Kazakhstan (1995), Georgia (1996), Tajikistan (2001), Azerbaijan (2002); honorary member of National Academy of Armenia (1994), India (1994), Kyrgyzstan, International Academy of Astronauts of the USA (1997), American Welding Society (1978), Rome Club (1989), British Institute of Welding (1993), German Welding Society (1997), Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine (2003) and many other institutions and academies, Doctor Honoris Causa of Higher Technical School of Chemnitz (1981), Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (1994), National State Technological University of Ukraine KPI (1998), Kharkiv State Polytechnic University (1998) and other institutions.

Awards

Hero of Ukraine (1998), Merited Worker of Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR (1968), Merited Inventor of the USSR (1983), laureate of Stalin Prize of the USSR (1950), Lenin Prize (1957), State Prize of Ukraine (2004) and other awards.

Order of Red Banner of Labor (1943), Order of Lenin (1966, 1969, 1975, 1978), Order of the October Revolution (1984), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1988), Prize of Yaroslav Mudry, Class V (1997), IV (2003) and Class I (2008), Certificate of Merit of the President of Ukraine (1993), and awards of Belarus, Bulgaria, the GDR, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, Czechoslovakia.