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Nuno Loureiro

Portuguese plasma physicist

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born
1977
died
2025
age at death
48
known for
physicist, university teacher

1977 – 2025

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Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was a Portuguese plasma physicist. He was the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 2024 until his murder in 2025. Authorities connected his murder to ClΓ‘udio Manuel Neves Valente, who was the perpetrator of the shooting at Brown University that occurred two days prior to Loureiro's murder.

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