Tamás Pócs

Tamás Pócs
Pócs Tamás
Pócs at the "Ten years of Wikipedia" conference, 2011
Born (1933-08-06) August 6, 1933
Budapest
NationalityHungarian
Alma materEötvös Loránd University
AwardsSzéchenyi Prize (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, ecology
InstitutionsEsterhazy Karoly College
Author abbrev. (botany)Pócs

Tamás Pócs (born 6 August 1933) is a Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian botanist, ecologist, and college professor and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the taxonomy and distribution conditions of mosses, tropical ecology, and the flora of southwestern Transdanubia and the Southern Carpathians. He is associated with the collection of many plant specimens and the description of one hundred and forty new plant species. Between 1991 and 1995, he was the president of the Hungarian Biological Society. His great-grandfather Ferenc Kozma (1844–1920) was a teacher, publicist, and academic; his sister Éva Pócs (born 1936) is a folklore researcher.