In memoriam — Prof. Nuno Loureiro (MIT)

3:36>> Um Right. And so we will start with a brief retrospective on Nuno >> and then we'll get into our recap. And as always, we're going to be focused on the science. >> Yeah. >> Because this is from first principles. [music]

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4:06So, Professor Nuno FG Lurero, um, he recently died, as recently as yesterday, according to the taping of this episode. He was the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Very unfortunate. The entire community, the scientific community in Cambridge is reeling from this loss. >> Yeah. Um, and I thought the best way that we can pay homage to a scientist like that is just to focus on his scientific career and some of the great seinal work that he has done in the field of plasma physics. Right? Um I can't comment too much on

4:46what happened other than really this guy was an incredible scientist, an incredible thinker and apart from even a science um an incredible educator and someone that sort of cultivated students and the community to do science. So he he seemed like a really incredible guy. Um, he really