The Society much regrets to hear of the death on 2 March of Honorary Member Peter Matthews FRS at the age of 91. Graduating in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, he subsequently studied medicine at Oxford, where he initiated his lifelong work on muscle receptors and motor control. Appointed a University Lecturer there in 1961, Peter became Professor of Sensorimotor Physiology (1987-96). His monograph for the Society, “Muscle Receptors and their Central Actions,” published in 1972, remains a model of scientific writing and insight. In 1980 Peter Matthews gave The Society’s Annual Review Prize Lecture. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. Read his obituary in Physiology News here.

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