Peter Matthews (physiologist)

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.[1] He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Proske, Uwe (1 January 2008). "The discovery of two types of fusimotor fibre by Peter Matthews". Experimental Physiology. 93 (1): 50–52. doi:10.1113/expphysiol.2007.039099. PMID 18165432. S2CID 206366296.
  2. ^ "Peter Matthews | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. ^ Glickstein, Mitchell (2006). "Mitchell Glickstein". In Squire, Larry R. (ed.). The history of neuroscience in autobiography. Volume 5. Elsevier Academic Press. pp. 339–340. ISBN 9780080461915.