Meredith Thring

Meredith Wooldridge Thring (1915 to 2006) was an engineer born in Melbourne, Victoria, whose career moved from fuel and combustion research to university teaching of mechanical engineering. From 1937 he worked at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, where by 1944 he led the Combustion Research Laboratory. He then headed the Physics Department of the British Iron and Steel Research Association from 1946 and became its assistant director in 1953. That year he was appointed Professor of Fuel Technology and Chemical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, and he served as President of the Institute of Fuel in 1962 and 1963. From 1964 to 1981 he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen Mary College, University of London. He died in Exmouth in 2006.