Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47

MIT News | Dec. 16, 2025, 3:45 p.m. | Original
In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.
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