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Mars G. Fontana
Pages 98-103

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From page 99...
... From 1929 to 1934 he served as a research assistant in the university's Department of Engineering, where his work included investigations of scaling of steel at forging temperatures, development and use of apparatus for vacuum fusion analysis for gases in steels, high-temperature creep of metals and alloys, and also basic work on the thermoclynamics of steelmaking. He published four articles based on this work.
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From page 100...
... At OSU he was called upon to serve on various faculty committees, including the Faculty Advisory Committee to the president and Board of Trustees, Faculty Council, Advisory Council of the Engineering Experiment Station, and Executive Committee of the College of Engineering. Throughout his career, Fontana merged science and engineering to clarify the mechanisms of corrosive attack of engineering materials by aggressive environments, and to develop and recommend inhibitors, coatings, and electrolytic and other means to protect engineering structures.
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From page 101...
... He served as president of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers in 1952, chairman of the Corrosion Division of the Electrochemical Society in ~ 948-1949, and chairman of the Columbus Chapter of the ASM in 1948. He was a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Phi Eta Sigma, TotaAlpha, Alpha Sigma Mu, and faculty adviser to Texnikoi.
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From page 102...
... Active in his community, Fontana participated in Cub Scouts, Cub Scout baseball (he had played semiprofessional baseball) , Boy Scout fund raising, the United Appeal, and the First Congregational Church, where he was an usher and member of the building committee.
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