In chemical science as well as in most branches of natural philosophy, expert practitioners of their subject — judging by past experience — are often no better than members of the general public in foreseeing the scientific and technological future. The veracity of this statement will be illustrated (in terms that will also be intelligible to non-experts), and the reasons why this is so will be elaborated by reference to specific discoveries, advances and developments in chemistry, physics, medicine, molecular biology and astronomy.
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Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, FREng, FRSE graduated in the University of Wales (Swansea) and completed his PhD at Queen Mary College, London. In 1978 after nine years there, he was invited to become Head of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge. From 1986 to 1991 he was Director of the Royal Institution, and continued to work at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory (DFRL) until 2007. He is the recipient of numerous international and national awards, including the Willard Gibbs, Linus Pauling, Guilio Natta and Stokes Gold Medals, as well as the Davy Medal of the Royal Society and the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. From 1993 to 2002 he was Master of Cambridge's oldest college, Peterhouse. A new mineral, meurigite, was named in his honour in 1995. He was knighted in 1991 for services to chemistry and the popularization of science.

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