| RefNo | EC/1963/21 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVII, 80 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Rotherham, Leonard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | Mr.Rotherham is basically a physical metallurgist who was in charge of the Physics Group in the Firth Brown Laboratories at Sheffield where he did research on the creep of metals. Later, when head of the Metallurgical Department at R.A.E. Farnborough, which he reorganised after the war, he continued this work and also did important work on fatigue of metals and on the manufacture of new metals, in particular titanium. He then joined the Industrial Group of the Atomic Energy Organisation at Risley where he initiated and built up the Research and Developmental Department without whose work in the fields of classical physics, metallurgy, Chemistry and chemical engineering the Atomic Energy manufacturing establishments could not have been built or operated. His selection of research projects and lines of attack were outstanding and his wise control in the allocation of limited scientific resources to provide information for a tightly dated programme were of inestimable value. Mr. Rotherham is now the Member of the Central Electricity Generating Board responsible for Research and Development; in building up and controlling his department (which does research in all fields important to the growing efficiency of electricity supply) he continues to show himself to be an outstanding organiser of industrial research. His wide responsibilities give him no opportunity for personal research but he contributes fertile and constructive direction not only in general but in detail. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: Christopher Hinton; C Sykes; J D Cockcroft; Harold Hartley; A A Hall; Willis ??Jackson; Claude Gibb; E N da C Andrade; T E Allibone; A H Cottrell; L F Bates; S F Dorey |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6142 | Rotherham; Leonard (1913 - 2001) | 1913 - 2001 |