Joseph Laws McKibben explained
Joseph L. McKibben |
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Joseph Laws McKibben (1912 - 2001) was an
American physicist and
engineer who worked with
J. Robert Oppenheimer as a group leader on the
Manhattan Project.
[1] He personally witnessed the
Trinity test and flipped the switch that set off the atomic bomb at Trinity.
[2] McKibben, motivated by his daughter Karan's paralysed hands due to
polio, also invented the
Air Muscle in 1957.
[3] [4]
He was born in 1912 in Missouri. He died in 2001 in Los Alamos, aged 89.[5]
References
- Web site: Manhattan District History, Project Y, The Los Alamos Project. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
- Web site: Joe McKibben, Scientist, Trinity Site, Los Alamos, NM, Manhattan Project Veteran, Scientist, Trinity Test Eyewitness. Atomic Heritage Foundation.
- Gurstelle . William . 21 May 2015 . Making a Simple Air Muscle - A father's love inspired this A-bomb maker to invent a pneumatic actuator that's used in robots today. . Makezine . Santa Rosa, California, USA . Make.co . 4 April 2020.
- Book: Gurstelle, William . William Gurstelle . 1 Feb 2017 . ReMaking History, Volume 3: Makers of the Modern World . Canada . Maker Media, Inc., 1160 . Chapter 9, Joseph McKibben and the Air Muscle. 9781680450682 .
- Web site: Joseph Laws McKibben. PeopleLegacy.com.
External links
- http://cyberneticzoo.com/bionics/1957-artificial-muscle-joseph-laws-mckibben-american/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/06/29/the-sweet-sin-of-the-atomic-city/9c9752cb-324a-45cf-a948-2ab5528f8fee/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/03/us/for-45-scientists-a-revisiting-of-site-of-first-atomic-blast.html
- https://www.abqjournal.com/trinity/trinity1.htm
- https://naturalphilosophy.org/home/member/?memberid=256&subpage=about
- https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/photos/mckibben-joseph-d1
- https://billiongraves.com/grave/Joseph-Laws-McKibben/9720563?referrer=myheritage
- https://peoplelegacy.com/joseph_laws_mckibben-271p2.