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]
Joseph L. McKibben | |
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| Born | 1912 |
| Died | 2001 (aged 88–89) |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
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He was born in 1912 in Missouri. He died in 2001 in Los Alamos, aged 89.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Manhattan District History, Project Y, The Los Alamos Project" (PDF). U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ Gurstelle, William (1 Feb 2017). ReMaking History, Volume 3: Makers of the Modern World. Canada: Maker Media, Inc., 1160. p. Chapter 9, Joseph McKibben and the Air Muscle. ISBN 9781680450682.
- ^ "Joseph Laws McKibben". PeopleLegacy.com.
External links
edit- 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.
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