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in stellar systems. In a series of papers from the early 1990s, Henry developed the idea of chaotic phase mixing, the process by which an ensemble of points evolves toward a uniform coarse-grained population of phase space.
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Already as a child, Kandrup was an accomplished musician, playing the organ, piano and French horn. He was also a passionate devotee of opera and ballet.
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and phase mixing; a proof (with J. F. Sygnet) of the linear stability of a broad class of stellar systems; and a generalization of
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Kandrup, H. E.; Sygnet, J. F. (November 1985), "A simple proof of dynamical stability for a class of spherical clusters",
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to non-integrable systems. At the time of his death, he was investigating the chaotic dynamics of
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Kandrup, H. E.; Mahon, M. E. (1994), "Relaxation and Stochasticity in a Truncated Toda Lattice",
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Proceedings of the 16th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics.
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Among his other contributions were a demonstration of the equivalence of
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Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Physics: In Memory of Henry Kandrup
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where his father had worked as a silver smith. He graduated from the
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Gottesman, Stephen T.; Buchler, J.-R.; Mahon, M. E., eds. (2005).
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Kandrup's work led to greater understanding in the fields of
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the following year. He received his PhD in 1980 from the
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Merritt, David; Gottesman, Stephen T. (December 2004).
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Florida workshops in nonlinear astronomy and physics
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before coming to the University of Florida in 1990.
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(1994), 7: 264:on the motion of stars in galaxies. 193:at the age of 16, then enrolled at 155:University of Florida, Gainesville 124:University of Florida, Gainesville 14: 726:Scientists from New York (state) 485:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01865.x 26: 721:People from Manhasset, New York 271:at the University of Florida. 260:, and the influence of binary 1: 711:University of Florida faculty 205:where his thesis advisor was 696:University of Chicago alumni 706:Syracuse University faculty 691:Princeton University alumni 742: 701:Oakland University faculty 380:Astronomy and Astrophysics 686:Cornell University alumni 513:The Astrophysical Journal 416:The Astrophysical Journal 187:Brooks Preparatory School 140: 98: 25: 582:. University of Florida. 454:Mon. Not. R. Astron. 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Manhasset
New York
Gainesville, Florida
United States
University of Chicago
Astrophysics
Plasma Physics
University of Florida, Gainesville
Doctoral advisor
astrophysicist
University of Florida, Gainesville
galaxy dynamics
plasma physics
Manhasset
Great Neck
Denmark
Brooks Preparatory School
Andover, Massachusetts
Cornell
Princeton
University of Chicago
James Ipser
Oakland University
Syracuse University
stellar dynamics
chaos
plasma physics
relaxation
Landau damping

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