Peter Milner

Peter Milner
Born(1919-06-13)13 June 1919
Silkstone Common, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died2 June 2018(2018-06-02) (aged 98)
Montréal, Canada
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience

Peter Milner (13 June 1919 – 2 June 2018) was a British-Canadian neuroscientist and former electrical engineer. He spent most of his career in the Department of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, where, together with James Olds, he helped establish the study of electrical self-stimulation of the brain and the neural basis of reward.