Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. ( born January 11, 1918 in the Panama Canal Zone; † 17 July 1990) was an American Air Force engineer who became world famous through the formulation of Murphy's Law.

Biography

He was the eldest of five siblings. After attending school in New Jersey, he went to the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1940. 1941 he successfully completed pilot training in the United States Army Air Corps. Last in rank Major he was used during the Second World War in the Pacific War in India, China and Myanmar. In 1947 he came to the United States Air Force Institute of Technology, was R & D officer at Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. After discharge from the United States Air Force in 1952 he took part in missile tests on the Holloman Air Force Base and went back to California.

Murphy's Law

See main article Murphy's Law.

The basic premise of the law is: " If there are multiple ways to do something, and one can go wrong with it, then someone will do it that way. " Murphy said so, you should carefully think in a construction all contingencies - especially those who can lead to disaster.

• Engineer, inventor, engineer
• Americans
• Born in 1918
• Died in 1990
• Man