Dr John Roche

Senior Lecturer in the History of Science

MSc, MA, DPhil (Oxon)

Member of , University of Oxford

Dr Roche teaches the history of science at Linacre College, Oxford, and applied physics at Oxford Brookes University. He was Senior Consultant and Administrator to the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity. His main research interest lies in using the history of physics to clarify difficult concepts in today’s physics. His publications include The mathematics of measurement: a critical history (1998), and ‘What is potential energy?’, European Journal of Physics, 24 (2003), 185–96.