Stephen Fleet

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Stephen George Fleet (1936-09-282006-05-18) was a Master of Downing College, Cambridge and a researcher into Mineral Sciences and Crystallography. His research fields were the crystal structure of minerals, particularly phase transformations in minerals and meteorites.

He was born 1936-09-28 and educated at Brentwood School, Essex, Lewes County Grammar School, Sussex and St John's College, Cambridge, where he received his doctorate. In 1963, he was a founding fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and Bursar and Fellow of Downing College from 1974. He was elected Vice-Master 1985-1987, 1991-1994, 1997-2000 and promoted to Master in 2000.

He died from cancer at the Hammersmith Hospital, London on 2006-05-18.

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