Leonard "Larry" Rotherham CBE FRS[1] (31 August 1913 – 21 March 2001) was a British metallurgist and vice chancellor of the University of Bath.
[2] He led the team which investigated the de Havilland Comet airliner crashes caused by metal fatigue around the windows.
He worked as a physicist at Brown Firth Research Laboratories on high melting point alloys.
He remained there until 1954 when he was appointed director of Research and Development of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Industrial Group based at Risley.
He became the member for Research on the CEGB in 1958, a role he remained in until 1969 when he was appointed vice chancellor of the University of Bath until his retirement in 1976.