Nuno Loureiro, an MIT professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics, has died at 47. A theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Loureiro studied complex problems at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.
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Nuno Loureiro, a professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics at MIT, has died. He was 47.
A lauded theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Lour... [4648 chars]