Peter Scott-Morgan obituary | Register – The Times

One day in late 2016 Peter Scott- Morgan, an internationally renowned scientist and management consultant with a PhD in robotics, noticed he could not wiggle his toes, at least not when he wanted to. A few weeks later, while near the Arctic Circle hoping to see the aurora borealis, he got out of the bath and tried to shake some water from his foot, but there was no response. “It was like when the batteries on your TV remote start to go,” he told The Times Magazine in 2019. “Sometimes it works. But sometimes it doesn’t.”

Things got gradually worse. He developed a limp and his grip weakened, but there was no numbness or pins and needles. “I could feel everything,” he said. Yet he