Professor Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley (4 March 1915 – 27 March 2017), better known as Neville Temperley, was an applied mathematician who made numerous contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics, graph theory and the physics of liquids and gases.
He was awarded the title Doctor of Science as a fellow of King's College Cambridge, before working for the Admiralty on numerical modelling of underwater explosions during World War 2.
He continued his work on the physical properties of liquids at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston until 1965.
Professor Neville Temperley was head of the Applied Mathematics Department at Swansea University for 17 years until his retirement in 1982.
His father, Harold William Vazeille Temperley, was a distinguished British historian.