Catalysts: Contributions to Green Chemistry, Clean Technology and Sustainability (2012) In 2003, he was the first scientist to be awarded the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London) for services to Welsh culture and British public life. He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Member of its inaugural Council. From 2011 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Wales. He was an overseer of the Science History Institute (Philadelphia), and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Zewail City of Science and Technology (Egypt). Thomas was appointed as a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013. In 2016, he was conferred an Honorary Fellowship by Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), in view of his distinguished achievements in catalysis and materials science, and his dedication and outstanding contributions to the popularisation of science. In October 2016, the Royal Society awarded Thomas the Royal Medal for Physical Sciences "for his pioneering work within catalytic chemistry, in particular on single-site heterogeneous catalysts, which have had a major impact on green chemistry, clean technology and sustainability." The Duke of York represented Her Majesty the Queen at the ceremony. Also in 2016, the UK Catalysis Hub launched a new medal that "honours the achievements of Sir John Meurig Thomas, a distinguished professor in the field of catalysis." The JMT Medal will be awarded every year, to a person working in the United Kingdom, for outstanding achievement in catalysis or a closely related field. Selected scientific publications Books Part 1: On the design and application of solid catalysts Sheet silicates: Broad spectrum catalysts for organic synthesis.(See also U.S. Patent 4,999,319 (1985), which is the basis of the world's largest solvent-free, single-step production of ethyl acetate.) Uniform heterogeneous catalysts: The role of solid-state chemistry in their development and design. New micro-crystalline catalysts Bakerian Lecture 1990. Solid acid catalysts Heterogeneous catalysts obtained by grafting metallocene complexes onto mesoporous silica Design, synthesis and in situ characterisation of new solid catalysts (Linus Pauling Lecture, California Institute of Technology, March 1999 and Karl Ziegler Lecture, Max Planck Institute, Mülheim, November 1998.) Molecular sieve catalysts for the regioselective and shape-selective oxyfunctionalization of alkanes in air Solvent-free routes to clean technology Constraining asymmetric organometallic catalysts within mesoporous supports boosts their enantioselectivity Highly efficient, one-step conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid using single-site