Joseph L. McKibben | |
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Born | 1912 |
Died | 2001 (aged 88–89) |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
Scientific career | |
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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.[4][5]
He was born in 1912 in Missouri. He died in 2001 in Los Alamos, aged 89.[6]