ABSTRACT
I spoke in my ICPE address (see p 229) of the electrifying effect on me of first hearing Eric Rogers speak. A lecture to a sizeable audience, enriched and enlivened with demonstrations, was undoubtedly Eric Rogers’ natural way of teaching physics. As anyone who ever heard him knows, he was a superb showman, with a good deal of the ham actor in him. He took mischievous pleasure in challenging, perplexing and astonishing his public. In presenting him for the award of the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1969 (reprinted on p 227), the late Walter Michels praised him for his showmanship, his sly and unexpected turns of phrase, and for his deep insights into students’ minds.
