Gennady Potapenko Explained

Gennady Vasilyevich Potapenko (ru|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]

See also

• Grote Reber

References

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

Further reading

• http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1947Obs....67...15R Reber, G. & Greenstein, J. L., Radio-frequency investigations of astronomical interest. The Observatory, Vol. 67, p. 15-26 (1947)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060921063449/http://archives.caltech.edu/search_catalog.cfm?search_field=Potapenko Caltech archives; photos, papers