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

  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.

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