MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home(www.nytimes.com)
65 pointsby donohoe2 months ago8 comments
  • stanleysTool2 months 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 months 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 months 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.
      • methyl2 months ago
        This was headline news in Poland
    • jeffwask2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
        Providence is about an hour drive away from where I'm at in Greater Boston, less so if your in the city.
    • yeah8798462 months ago
      [dead]
  • gnabgib2 months 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...
  • Mr_Eri_Atlov2 months 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-arnz2 months 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.
  • rrawasi2 months ago
    [flagged]
    • 0_____02 months ago
      what is the point of idle speculation like this?
      • noduerme2 months 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.

        • rrawasi2 months 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.
          • noduerme2 months ago
            >> Killing a non-military scientist has no moral justification

            No one said it did.

            You transparently attempted to create a completely unrelated conspiracy theory by involving Israel in a civilian scientist's murder. Something we know Israel had absolutely nothing to do with.

            You could have asked whether he had connections to Iran or China, or Tesla or General Motors. You didn't just randomly pick Israel because you "wanted to find a reason."

            Let me suggest that if your attempt to find a reason for everything begins and ends with Israel, you may be an antisemite. Scratch that, you are one. And your question didn't age well. And your self-professed interest in finding a reason doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny, either.

            1/5 stars for a very weak attempt at agitprop on behalf of whoever sent you to write it.

            • rrawasia month ago
              Who the hell are you? You are not in a position to educate me, but I am happy to see that I am wasting $7,000 per post based on the Hasbara project. Continue trolling, I enjoy seeing that money is getting wasted :-)
        • mupuff12342 months 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.
    • emot2 months ago
      no. he was Portuguese and simply a brilliant scientist.
  • admeyer2 months ago
    [flagged]
  • austengary22 months ago
    "Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was helping to develop clean-energy fusion devices."

    Big oil says no.