MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home(www.nytimes.com)
54 pointsby donohoe2 days ago8 comments
  • gnabgib2 days ago
    From MIT: Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47 https://news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-loureiro-professor-director-p...
  • stanleysTool2 days ago
    Let's hope not another troubled and struggling math graduate:

    Murder of Karel de Leeuw - Wikipedia

    Murder of Karel de Leeuw Theodore Landon "Ted" Streleski (born 1936), an American former graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University, murdered his former faculty advisor, Professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball-peen hammer on August 18, 1978.

  • jablongo2 days ago
    Not sure what we should we make of this. Besides the tragedy of losing a human being and a scientist, is this significant in another way?
    • k8si2 days ago
      I'm not sure people outside of Greater Boston would care, but those of us who do live there probably find it exceedingly strange that this occurred in Brookline of all places.
    • jeffwask2 days ago
      Nothing yet, but the timing is oddly coincidental to the shooting that occurred a Brown University a few days ago. Probably nothing there but who knows.
    • willis9362 days ago
      We have no info but he was the department head of the MIT PSFC. It's easy to imagine a deranged individual picking a high profile target by browsing MIT's website. Or it was a domestic dispute or road rage or any number of things that would drive someone to shoot someone in their home.

      We have no information and can only speculate.

    • lawlessone2 days ago
      Looking at a map and and it seems relatively close to Brown(i'm not American , maybe these are very far apart when you are actually there), and that shooter hasn't been caught.
      • kai_herron2 days ago
        Providence is about an hour drive away from where I'm at in Greater Boston, less so if your in the city.
    • yeah8798462 days ago
      [dead]
  • austengary216 hours ago
    "Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was helping to develop clean-energy fusion devices."

    Big oil says no.

  • Mr_Eri_Atlov2 days ago
    If any entity had a goal to hamstring research progress in America and get away with it, due to it being unnoticeable in the sea of regular shootings and political upheavals, there would be no better time to do so.
    • arnz-arnza day ago
      it's the best time for all manner of crimes in fact. It's so sad what a small cabal of lunatics can do.
  • admeyer2 days ago
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  • rrawasi2 days ago
    Does he have any ties with Israel? It could be revenge from Iran on its nuclear scientists.
    • 0_____0a day ago
      what is the point of idle speculation like this?
      • noduermea day ago
        The point of this user's sole comment on HN is to imply that Israel is nefarious and that anyome working with Israel may be targeted for assassination (regardless that there's no indication this person was).

        I don't think this post should be flagged or removed. There should be a separate classification for nation-state trollbots promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories.

        • rrawasia day ago
          Killing a non-military scientist has no moral justification. I didn't have any ill intentions; I wanted to find the reason. However, updating news update answered my questions. Don't try to get your interpretation from my mouth.
        • mupuff1234a day ago
          A few days ago one of the top HN posts was a antisemitic conspiracy cesspool so I'm afraid we're long past that point.
    • emota day ago
      no. he was Portuguese and simply a brilliant scientist.