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Giusto Fonda-Bonardi (89) passed away peacefully on May 16, 2011. Born April 15,1922 in Trieste, Italy he was commissioned at the Italian Naval Academy in 1943, and came to the US aboard an Italian submarine in 1944 to develop anti-submarine weapons with the U.S. Navy. In the ensuing 65 years he worked as a physicist and engineer in southern California's flagship companies such as Rotoflow, Power Industries, Litton and Hughes Aircraft. He developed over 39 patents in the fields of inertial guidance, radar and microwave applications, magneto-hydrodynamics, plasma containment, electronic circuits, space and underwater protective systems, thermo-dynamics and gas dynamics. For the last 25 years he managed his own consulting company, Meruit, specializing in computation fluid dynamics and expander-compressor systems. As a life senior member of the IEEE, Mr. Fonda-Bonardi published extensively in scientific journals throughout his professional career. He recently wrote a book entitled The Persistence of Myth. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Mirella; two sons and their spouses, Peter and Claudia, and Mario and Sylvia; and three grandchildren, Julia, Allegra and Matteo. Services: Saturday May 21,2:00 pm, Pierce Brothers Westwood, 1218 Glendon, LA, 90024
Arrangements under the direction of Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary, Los Angeles, CA.
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