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Dons tin-foil hat
...Okay, so what's the over/under on him having had a recent breakthrough and this being a fossil fuel industry-sponsored hit?
Given that he was a theoretical physicist, the path from his research to anything affecting business revenue would have been long and convoluted, so unless they’re killing large numbers of physicists just in case, it’s unlikely.
Magnetohydrodynamics is a somewhat specialized subfield where there are immediate direct applications to nuclear fusion reactors.
It's basically fluid mechanics, like you'd see in the aerospace department, but the fluid both generates and is moved by the local magnetic field. Because it's an ionized plasma.