Edward A. Murphy Jr.
American aerospace engineer
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Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems. He is best known for his namesake "Murphy's law", which is said to be "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Wikipedia
Born: January 11, 1918, Panama Canal Zone
Died: July 17, 1990 (age 72 years), Los Angeles, CA
Parents: Edward Aloysius Murphy and Alice Mary Coughlin Murphy
Education: United States Military Academy (1940) and Air Force Institute of Technology
Siblings: Daniel Jerome Murphy
Nickname(s): Ed
Other work: Research in aerospace engineering and reliability engineering