Biography:Joseph Laws McKibben
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Short description: American physicist and engineer
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| Born | 1912 Missouri |
| Died | 2001 (aged 88–89) Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
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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 switches that activated the timers that set off the atomic bomb at Trinity.[2][3]
McKibben, motivated by his daughter Karan's paralysed hands due to polio, also invented the Air Muscle in 1957.[4][5]
He was born in 1912 in Missouri. He died in 2001 in Los Alamos, aged 89.[6] His remains, and those of his wife and daughter, were interred at Guaje Pines Cemetery in Los Alamos. [7]
References
- ↑ "Manhattan District History, Project Y, The Los Alamos Project". https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/publications/LANLMDHProjectYPart2.pdf.
- ↑ "Joe McKibben, Scientist, Trinity Site, Los Alamos, NM, Manhattan Project Veteran, Scientist, Trinity Test Eyewitness". https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/joe-mckibben.
- ↑ Rhodes, Richard (1986). The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-44133-7. OCLC 13793436.
- ↑ 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). https://makezine.com/projects/make-40/joseph-mckibben-and-the-air-muscle/. 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=P31VDgAAQBAJ.
- ↑ "Joseph Laws McKibben". https://peoplelegacy.com/joseph_laws_mckibben-271p2..
- ↑ https://www.interment.net/data/us/nm/los-alamos/guaje-pines/index.htm
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.
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