Clyde E. Williams - Chairman, Iron and Steel Division

CLYDE WILLIAMS, after graduating from the University of Utah as a chemical engineer, worked for a time in western mills and smelters. He then joined the U. S. Bureau of Mines and during the World War studied Ordnance Department and Navy problems on ferroalloys and alloy steels at the Cornell University laboratories. Later, as superintendent of the Northwest Experiment Station of the Bureau, he was active in electric furnace and ore reduction work. Clyde then went to South America and surveyed the iron and fuel resources of the Argentine. Returning, he became chief metallurgist of the Columbia Steel Corp., of