Russell Merle Genet (born 1940) is an American astronomer, who specializes in photometric observations and probing of very short-period eclipsing binary stars.
[1] Between 1964 and 1968 he worked as a rocket scientist for Space and Missile Systems, San Bernardino, California.
Since then until 1990 he worked as a research supervisor for Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, and Mesa, Arizona.
[3][6] In 1993 Genet was elected the 51st president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and served in this position for two years.
[8] While teaching at Cuesta College, Genet taught an astronomy research seminar that required students to publish their results.