Gennady Potapenko
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Template:Short description Gennady Vasilyevich Potapenko (Template:Langx) (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]
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- ↑ Geoff McNamara, Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars. Springer, 2008, p.29. Template:ISBN
- ↑ W. T. Sullivan, ed., The Early Years of Radio Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years After Jansky's Discovery. Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 28ff. Template:ISBN.