Joseph L. McKibben | |
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Title | ABQjournal: Trinity 50 Years Later |
Website | https://www.abqjournal.com/trinity/trinity1.htm |
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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 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]
He was born in 1912 in Missouri. He died in 2001 in Los Alamos, aged 89.[5]