Rate My Professor R. Scott Kemp

In his career, Kemp served as Science Advisor in the U.S. State Department's Office of the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control in 2010, helping develop the technical framework for the Iran Nuclear Deal. He has been on the American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs, authoring their climate change position statement. At MIT, he advises the Energy Studies Program, sits on the International Policy Lab advisory board, and the President’s Committee for Distinguished Fellowships. He teaches courses such as Social Problems of Nuclear Energy (22.04), Applications of Nuclear Science and Engineering (22.102), and Nuclear Power and Society (22.103). Kemp's accolades include Fellowship in the American Physical Society (2017), Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017), Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics (2016), NEC Corporation Award (2015), Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Chair (2015-2017), Class of 1943 Professorship (2018-2021), and Fulbright Fellowship (2003). Notable publications feature "The Weapons Potential of High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium" (Science, 2024), "Potential for small and micro reactors to electrify developing regions" (Nature Energy, 2023), "Physical Cryptographic Verification of Nuclear Warheads" (PNAS, 2016), and "The Nonproliferation Emperor Has No Clothes: The Gas Centrifuge, Supply-Side Controls, and the Future of Nuclear Proliferation" (International Security, 2014).