The Kernel in Jupyter Notebook does not respond when importing the ROOT framework

Question

I am hoping to use pyRoot, the data analysis framework developed by CERN, by integrating it in a Jupyter notebook. That said, I believe that I did the proper installation of ROOT on my macOS 10.

When I launch the ROOT Jupyter notebook using the following command, it launches properly:

root --notebook

and I get the Jupyter notebook editor. However, whenever I start the notebook by:

import ROOT

The command is kept loading a pop up notification telling me that:

The kernel appears to have died. It will restart automatically.