Joseph Laws McKibben
American physicist and engineer
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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]
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| Born | 1912 |
| Died | 2001 (aged 88–89) |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
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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]
