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

See also Grote Reber

References

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