Meirion Thomas (28 December 1894 – 5 April 1977) was a 20th-century Welsh botanist and plant physiologist.
[2] Thomas was born on 28 December 1894 at 2 Menai Terrace in Bangor, Wales, the son of John Thomas, Vice Principal of Bangor Normal College, and his wife, Catherine Ann Roberts.
[2] He was educated at Friars School, Bangor from 1906 to 1912 and began studies at the University of Cambridge but this was interrupted by the war.
His proposers were John Heslop-Harrison, Alfred Hobson, Ernest Dunlop and Robert Wheldon.
[4] In 1949 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS),[2] his canditaure citation referring to his research investigating catabolic processes in plants.