possible ID of "Murphy's Law" user in 1951/1949-50 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Jan 12 15:40:34 UTC 2009


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I'm interested




>
> I may have identified the speaker of "Murphy's Law" in the
> 1951 publication
> (below) that reported an interview in 1949 or 1950:
> Horace Richard Crane (1907-2007), Physics Ph.D., Cal. Tech.,
> 1934; Prof. at U.
> Mich. at the time of the interview. If there's interest I'll
> describe the criteria for the possible, I guess probable,
> identification. For now I note that he, like I. C. Cornog,
> the 1952 user of "Murphy's Law" (below), was a physicist.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
> Quoting Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>:
>
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