Sir James Woodham Menter, FRS FRMS (22 August 1921 – 18 July 2006) was a British physicist.
He was born in Teynham, Kent and was educated at the Dover Grammar School for Boys, where he won a scholarship to study Natural Sciences at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
His studies were interrupted by the Second World War, during which he was engaged on trials of Under Water Sound Detection systems at the Admiralty Research Station in Fairlie, Ayrshire.
In 1965 he was appointed Director of Research and Development at the establishment and in 1968 made a member of the main board of the company.
[4] He left TI in 1976 to become Principal of Queen Mary College, London, holding the position until 1986.