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American physicist and engineer
Joseph L. McKibben |
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Born | 1912 (2024-04-24UTC13:25:46)
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Died | 2001 (aged 88–89)
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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.
[2] He personally witnessed the
Trinity test and flipped the switch that set off the atomic bomb at Trinity.
[3] McKibben, motivated by his daughter Karan's paralysed hands due to
polio, also invented the
Air Muscle in 1957.
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He was born in 1912 in
Missouri. He died in 2001 in
Los Alamos, aged 89.
[6]
References
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"ABQjournal: Trinity 50 Years Later".
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"Manhattan District History, Project Y, The Los Alamos Project" (PDF). U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
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"Joe McKibben, Scientist, Trinity Site, Los Alamos, NM, Manhattan Project Veteran, Scientist, Trinity Test Eyewitness". Atomic Heritage Foundation.
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^ 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.
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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.
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"Joseph Laws McKibben". PeopleLegacy.com.
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