When1: 1976
When2: 2002
Who: Michel Hénon [Hénon, Michel]
What: astronomer
Where: France
Detail: He studied stretching, compressing, and folding phase space to get self-similarity {Hénon attractor} [1976]: x(t) = y(t - 1) + 1 - 1.4 * (x(t - 1))^2 and y(t) = 0.3 * x(t - 1). He predicted that globular clusters have center that experienced gravitational collapse {gravothermal collapse} [2002].
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