Frank S. Henyey received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1967.
He held Post-Doctoral and faculty positions at the University of Michigan and research positions at the La Jolla Institute (where he was Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Nonlinear Dynamics) and Areté Associates. Since 1991, he has been at the University of Washington, Seattle, as a Principal Physicist in the Ocean Physics Department of the Applied Physics Laboratory and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Physics. He is a sea-going theoretical physicist with interests in ocean acoustics and small-scale ocean hydrodynamics.
Dr. Henyey is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Oceanography Society.