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.
[2] He was the Professor of Sensorimotor Physiology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Christ Church.
[3] He was born in Cambridge to the physiologist Sir Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews and Rachel Eckhard.
In 1956 he was appointed University Demonstrator in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, Dr Lee’s Reader in Anatomy in 1958 and Official Student (Fellow) at Christ Church, then becoming a University Lecturer in 1961.
He subsequently became a Professor of Sensorimotor Physiology in Oxford,[5] known particularly for his work on muscle spindles.