Iranian students switch majors to nuclear sciences

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, ABC News reported Tuesday.
"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," Iranian Minister of Science Research and Technology Kamran Daneshjo said in a press conference Monday, according to Iran's Tehran Times.