Steve had a great love of physics, and achieved his pHd in this subject. His last piece of work was when he got his final job at Sheffield universty, and it was here where he at last found some sense of peace in his life.
Steve joined the ACORNE (Acoustic COsmic Ray Neutrino Experiment) collaboration in August 2005 bringing with him a wealth of experience in areas including designing and building instrumentation systems, electronics and data acquisition. Steve attacked all new challenges with good humour; he was actively contributing to the development of an acoustic calibrator, a key goal of the ACORNE project, at the time of his death.
For curiosity purposes, the neutrino is a fundamental particle with no charge and almost no mass. These elusive particles rarely interact with matter and pass right through the Earth unaltered. By studying low energy neutrinos we are able to improve our understanding of neutrino masses and of "neutrino oscillations" whereby one type of neutrino becomes another in free flight. The detection of high energy neutrinos can help our understanding of distant, massive astrophysical objects and may even help us identify the origin of dark matter which makes up around 25% of all the mass in the Universe. Sourced from Lee Thompson's page
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