Mujid kazimi biography for kids

Mujid S. Kazimi, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and one of the world’s foremost educators and researchers in nuclear technology, died suddenly on July 1st in China.

Kazimi, who was 67, suffered a heart attack while visiting Harbin Engineering University to participate in an international advisory committee.

He held faculty appointments in MIT’s Departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and Department of Mechanical Engineering, and was director of both MIT’s Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems and the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment.

He served as NSE’s department head from to

Current NSE department head Richard Lester shared the news of Kazimi’s death in an email to the department’s faculty on Wednesday, describing it as “a devastating blow.”

“The international community knew Mujid as one of the world’s great nuclear engineers,” Lester told