MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home

Posted by donohoe 13 hours ago

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Comment by toomuchtodo 13 hours ago

Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro

https://archive.today/0RiGK

https://news.mit.edu/2024/nuno-loureiro-named-director-mit-p...

https://nse.mit.edu/people/nuno-f-loureiro/

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/nuno-gomes-loureiro/

Comment by gnabgib 10 hours 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...

Comment by stanleysTool 11 hours 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.

Comment by jablongo 12 hours 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?

Comment by k8si 12 hours 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.

Comment by jeffwask 12 hours 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.

Comment by willis936 11 hours 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.

Comment by lawlessone 12 hours 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.

Comment by kai_herron 12 hours ago

Providence is about an hour drive away from where I'm at in Greater Boston, less so if your in the city.

Comment by yeah879846 12 hours ago

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Comment by rrawasi 8 hours ago

Does he have any ties with Israel? It could be revenge from Iran on its nuclear scientists.

Comment by 0_____0 7 hours ago

what is the point of idle speculation like this?

Comment by noduerme 3 hours 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.

Comment by rrawasi 2 hours 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.

Comment by mupuff1234 3 hours 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.

Comment by emot 7 hours ago

no. he was Portuguese and simply a brilliant scientist.

Comment by Mr_Eri_Atlov 9 hours 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.

Comment by arnz-arnz 5 hours 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.

Comment by admeyer 9 hours ago

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