Eric M. Rogers

Eric M. Rogers
Photograph of the head, shoulders, and hands of a man standing in front of a blackboard. The man is smiling and staring at this hands, which are at to the left of his face in the photograph; he is apparently using his hands to explain something. The fingers of his left hand are pointing upwards. His right hand is above his left, with its fingertips pointing downwards and touching the matching fingertips of his left hand. The two hands thus form an enclosure. He is dressed in a tweed jacket with a necktie. There is a diagram chalked on the blackboard.
Rogers demonstrating in the film Coulomb's Law (1959).
Born(1902-08-15)15 August 1902
Bickley, United Kingdom
Died(1990-07-01)1 July 1990
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)physics educator and author
Known forPhysics for the Inquiring Mind

Eric M. Rogers (15 August 1902 – 1 July 1990) was a British writer and physics educator.[1] He is perhaps best known for his 1960 textbook Physics for the Inquiring Mind.[2] The book, subtitled The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science, was based on courses he gave at Princeton University, where he taught from 1942 to 1971.[3] Rogers also headed the Nuffield Science Teaching Project programme in physics education in the 1960s.

  1. ^ "Eric M. Rogers, 87; Teacher Humanized Physics' Complexity". The New York Times. 11 July 1990.
  2. ^ Rogers, Eric M. (1960). Physics for the Inquiring Mind. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08016-X.
  3. ^ Fuller, Keith (1994). "Eric Rogers 1902-1990". In Jennison, Brenda; Ogborn, Jon (eds.). Wonder and Delight: Essays in Science Education. Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics. p. 203. ISBN 0-7503-0315-8.