Peter Matthews (physiologist) (original) (raw)

Professor Peter Bryan Conrad Matthews FRS (23 December 1928 - 2 March 2020) was a British physiologist who made particular contributions to the study of muscle spindles. He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was the Professor of Sensorimotor Physiology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Christ Church. While in Oxford he worked on proprioception.