MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/mit-professor-shot-brookline-nuno-loureiro.html

65•donohoe•1mo ago

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toomuchtodo•1mo 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/

jablongo•1mo 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?

k8si•1mo 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.

methyl•1mo ago

This was headline news in Poland

lawlessone•1mo 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_herron•1mo ago

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

jeffwask•1mo 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.

jeffwask•1mo ago

Maybe we are on to something

https://abcnews.go.com/US/brown-mass-shooting-mit-professor-...

mk89•1mo ago

Reuters (partially) confirms it [0]

> Foley, the top prosecutor in Boston, said at a press conference that investigators were certain Valente "murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro" on Monday, saying that prosecutors have ample evidence linking him to the crime.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-probe-links-between-...

willis936•1mo 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.

stanleysTool•1mo 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.

gnabgib•1mo 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_Atlov•1mo 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-arnz•1mo 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.

austengary2•1mo ago

"Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was helping to develop clean-energy fusion devices."

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