Gennady Potapenko

Gennady Vasilyevich Potapenko (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Потапенко) (Mar 25, 1894 – June, 1979) was an American radio astronomer of Russian origin.

After the signal discoveries made by Karl Jansky in the mid-1930s, Potapenko (then a Cambridge physicist),[1] along with Caltech physicist Donald Folland and Palomar telescope designer Russell Porter, attempted further researches in 'star static' in 1936. They were able to confirm Jansky's results with a loop antenna, then a single wire, but were unable to secure adequate funding to continue.[2]

References
  1. Geoff McNamara, Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars. Springer, 2008, p.29. ISBN 0-387-76560-3
  2. W. T. Sullivan, ed., The Early Years of Radio Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years After Jansky's Discovery. Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 28ff. ISBN 0-521-61602-6.

Further reading
  • Reber, G. & Greenstein, J. L., Radio-frequency investigations of astronomical interest. The Observatory, Vol. 67, p. 15-26 (1947)
  • Caltech archives; photos, papers

See also


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