Approximately 1,300 Iranian university students have applied to switch their majors to the field of nuclear sciences following the assassination of a top nuclear expert in Iran, a government official reportedly said late Monday.
“Three hundred talented students at Sharif University and about a thousand brilliant students at the country’s universities have applied in recent days to change their major and start studying nuclear physics and nuclear engineering,” Kamran Daneshjo, Iranian Minister of Science Research and Technology, said in a press conference Monday, according to Iran’s Tehran Times.