Joseph Laws McKibben explained

Joseph L. McKibben
Url:	https://www.abqjournal.com/trinity/trinity1.htm
ABQjournal: Trinity 50 Years Later

| caption = Joseph L. McKibben| birth_date = | birth_place = Missouri| death_date = | death_place = Los Alamos, New Mexico| alma_mater = University of Wisconsin| workplaces =

• University of Wisconsin
• Los Alamos National Laboratory

}}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

1. Web site: Manhattan District History, Project Y, The Los Alamos Project. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
2. Web site: Joe McKibben, Scientist, Trinity Site, Los Alamos, NM, Manhattan Project Veteran, Scientist, Trinity Test Eyewitness. Atomic Heritage Foundation.
3. 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.
4. 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 .
5. 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.