Henry D.I. Abarbanel *66

Henry died in Del Mar, Calif., May 26, 2023.

Born May 31, 1943, in Washington, D.C., Henry received a B.S. in physics from Caltech in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1966.

Henry spent most of his academic career at the University of California, San Diego, where he was a Distinguished Professor of Physics in the School of Physical Sciences and a research physicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory. Previously he worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, held faculty positions at Northwestern and Princeton, and was a visiting professor at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz. He was also a visitor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Switzerland, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Germany, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Henry’s research interests included nonlinear dynamics in physical and biological systems, machine learning, geophysics and regional weather forecasting, electrical signals in the heart and their role in heart disease, odor recognition in insects, oceanic gravity waves, and fluid dynamics.

He served on San Diego regional bodies concerned with energy, wastewater, infrastructure, and quality of life.

Henry is survived by his wife, Beth Levine; daughters Brett and Sara; and granddaughter Joanna.

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