Robert Hargraves graduated with honors in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1961, also completing a physics major. He earned his PhD in high energy nuclear physics at Brown University in 1967, then became Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, teaching the first computer science courses while also Associate Director of the computation center. He founded a software company and then became vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1980. He was an information systems management consultant for Arthur D. Little from 1982 to 1994. He joined medical device maker Boston Scientific as Vice President and Chief Information Officer, retiring in 2000. 

He occasionally lectures at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and teaches at Dartmouth Osher.  He is a 2016 co-founder of Thorcon International, developing a 500 MW molten salt nuclear reactor power plant to be produced in a shipyard to demonstrate generating electric power for Indonesia at a lower cost than from burning coal or LNG. He has written articles about nuclear power for the Wall Street Journal and Real Clear Energy. His most recent book is New Nuclear is HOT!

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