Education of a lifetime

Festschrifts for physicists are by no means uncommon, but those for physics teacher, such as this, are rare indeed. Wonder and Delight is a collection of essays and extracts in honour of Eric Rogers, a Cambridge graduate who taught in English public schools (Clifton, Bedales and Charterhouse) in the inter-war years and who was subsequently a professor of physics at Princeton University in the US. In 1963, on the untimely death of Donald McGill, who had just been appointed organizer of the Nuffield Foundation’s O-level physics project, Rogers took over and retained an association with the project, including the later revision of its materials, throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s. He died in 1990, shortly before his 88th birthday