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Authorised form of name	Matthews; Sir; Bryan Harold Cabot (1906 - 1986)
Dates	1906 - 1986
Date of birth	14/06/1906
Date of death	22/07/1986
Activity	Career: Fellow of Kings's College, Cambridge; Assistant Director of Research, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge Honours: CBE 1944; Kt 1952
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	14/03/1940
Age at election	33
RSActivity	Royal Society roles: VP 1956-1958
Source	Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1990 vol 35 pp 263-279, plate, by Sir John Gray References: J K Bradley and E M Tansey, 'The Coming of the Electronic Age to the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory: E D Adrian's Valve Amplifier in 1921' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 217-228
Code	NA1318

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1940/16	Matthews, Sir Bryan Harold Cabot: certificate of election to the Royal Society
GLB/19/1/14	Sir Bryan Matthews, Physiological Laboratory, Downing Street, Cambridge to Brown	30 January 1960
GLB/65/78/12	Bryan Matthews, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown	23 December 1960
GLB/65/78/14	Brown to Bryan Matthews, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge	19 October 1961
GLB/65/78/13	Bryan Matthews, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown	17 October 1961
GLB/65/78/11	Bryan Matthews, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown	12 December 1960
CMB/278/68	Paper passed for publication [Phil. Trans.]	4 April 1956
PB/2/7/9/3	Letter from Bryan Matthews, enclosing 1p typescript of proposed note to 'Nature' describing negative findings of tests on biological effects produced by magnetic fields made by Matthews in 1939 using Blackett's large electro-magnet.	17 January 1964
RR/65/152	Referee's report by Claude Gordon Douglas, on a paper 'Individual variations in ability to acclimatize to high altitude' by Ancel Keys, Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, W H Forbes and Ross A McFarland	8 May 1938
RR/69/220	Referee's report by [J Genver Jones], on a paper 'A new instrument for solving spherical triangles' by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews	19 February 1945
RR/68/500	Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Reflex conduction in the giant fibres of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton	[1944]
RR/68/499	Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton	[1944]
CMB/281/27	Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings	October 1960
RR/64/85	Referee's report by Claude Gordon Douglas, on a paper 'Individual variations in ability to acclimatize to high altitude' by Ancel Keys, Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, W H Forbes and Ross A McFarland	8 April 1937
RR/74/69	Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Experimental investigations on the afferent fibres in muscle nerves' by L G Brock, John Carew Eccles and W Rall	18 February 1951
RR/74/71	Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Repetitive monosynaptic activation of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and W Rall	19 February 1951

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