Turkish :
Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. (d. Panama Kanal Bölgesi 11 Ocak 1918 – ö. 17 Temmüz 1990), 1918 doğumlu ABD Hava Kuvvetlerinde 1949'da roketler üzerine deney yapan mühendislerden biridir. İnsan üzerine ivmelenmenin etkilerini incelemişti (usaf proje mx981). Deneylerden birisinde bir pilot üzerine 16 değişik noktaya akselometre takılması gerekiyordu. Sensör bir yapıştırıcı ile ancak iki türlü takılabiliyordu ve birisi 16 sensörün tamamını da yanlış takmayı becerdi. Bunun üzerine Murphy, daha sonra kanun olarak nitelendirilecek ilk söylemlerini bir basın toplantısında açıkladı. Birkaç ay içinde "Murphy Kanunları" mühendislik sahasında çalışanlar arasında yayıldı ve 1958'de de nihayet webster'in sözlüğüne girdi.1990 yılında hayata veda etti.
English:
Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. (January 11, 1918 – July 17, 1990[1]) 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 state, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
Born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1918, Murphy was the eldest of five children.[2] After attending high school in New Jersey, he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1940. The same year he accepted a commission into the United States Army, and undertook pilot training with the United States Army Air Corps in 1941. During World War II he served in the Pacific Theater in India, China and Burma (now known as Myanmar), achieving the rank of major.
Following the end of hostilities, in 1947 Murphy attended the United States Air Force Institute of Technology, becoming R&D Officer at the Wright Air Development Center of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was while here that he became involved in the high-speed rocket sled experiments (USAF project MX981, 1949) which led to the coining of Murphy's law.[3] Murphy himself was reportedly unhappy with the commonplace interpretation of his law, which is seen as capturing the essential "cussedness" of inanimate objects.[citation needed] Murphy regarded the law as crystallizing a key principle of defensive design, in which one should always assume worst-case scenarios.[citation needed] Murphy was said by his son to have regarded the many jocular versions of the law as "ridiculous, trivial and erroneous." His attempts to have the law taken more seriously were unsuccessful.
In 1952, having resigned from the United States Air Force, Murphy carried out a series of rocket acceleration tests at Holloman Air Force Base, then returned to California to pursue a career in aircraft cockpit design for a series of private contractors. He worked on crew escape systems for some of the most famous experimental aircraft of the 20th century, including the F-4 Phantom II, the XB-70 Valkyrie, the SR-71 Blackbird, the B-1 Lancer, and the X-15 rocket plane. During the 1960s, he worked on safety and life support systems for Project Apollo, and ended his career with work on pilot safety and computerized operation systems on the Apache helicopter.