A Review: Principles and Criteria for Cathodic Protection Of Steel in Sea Water^⋆

MILLER H. PETERSON is a member of the Marine Corrosion Section, Physical Metallurgy Branch in the Metallurgy Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. He received a BS degree in chemistry from Clemson College in 1944, and an MA degree in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina in 1951. He has been associated with Clemson College as an instructor in the chemistry department, and with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak, Maryland, where he was engaged in the evaluation of electrochemical ordnance devices. Since 1954 he has been at NRL as a part of a group working on the cathodic protection of naval vessels.