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Martin Rogers is the Co-Director of the Templeton Science and Religion in Schools Project, Oxford, which is the first major project of its kind. He was educated at Heidelberg and Cambridge (Science and History) Universities. After a short period in industry he taught chemistry with some religious studies at Westminster School. He was seconded as Nuffield Research Fellow, the Nuffield O-level Chemistry Project (1962-64) and Salter's Company Fellow, Imperial College London (1969). He was Headmaster of Malvern College (1971-82), Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham (1982-91) and Chairman of the Headmasters Conference in 1987. From 1991-2001 he was Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University where he was an Associate Fellow. There he developed, for teachers of Religious Education, the Farmington Fellowships, the Farmington Millennium Awards and the Farmington Special Needs Awards. Among his publications are John Dalton and the Atomic Theory (1965), Chemistry and Energy (1968), Chemistry: facts, patterns and principles (co-author 1972) and a paper, "Francis Bacon and the Birth of Modern Science" (1976). He edited the Nuffield O-level Chemistry Sample Scheme (1965), the Foreground Chemistry Series (1968) and the Farmington Papers from 1993-2001. He has written and lectured widely on educational matters, particularly on science education and on issues concerning the claims of science and religions.
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