Background
Kandrup was born in Manhasset, New York and spent most of his childhood in Great Neck. His parents, Jytte and Fred, were immigrants from Denmark where his father had worked as a silver smith.
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Henry Kandrup
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He graduated from the Brooks Preparatory School in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of 16, then enrolled at Cornell, transferring to Princeton the following year. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1980 from the University of Chicago where his thesis advisor was James Ipser.
Career
His major contributions were in the areas of galaxy dynamics and plasma physics. He taught at Oakland University and Syracuse University before coming to the University of Florida in 1990. He was also a passionate devotee of opera and ballet.
Kandrup"s work led to greater understanding in the fields of stellar dynamics, chaos, and plasma physics.
Much of Kandrup"s research was directed toward developing a more refined mathematical description of dynamical relaxation 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.
Among his other contributions were a demonstration of the equivalence of Landau damping and phase mixing. A proof (with J F Sygnet) of the linear stability of a broad class of stellar systems
And a generalization of Jeans"s theorem to non-integrable systems
At the time of his death, he was investigating the chaotic dynamics of charged particle beams, and the influence of binary supermassive black holes on the motion of stars in galaxies. Kandrup organized more than a dozen workshops on nonlinear dynamics at the University of Florida. Asteroid 12008 Kandrup.
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