Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan is an astrophysicist. He is known for predicting binary radio pulsars. Bisnovatyi-Kogan was a student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from 1958-1964. He was a postgraduate student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics from 1964-1967. Bisnovatyi-Kogan's PhD thesis was titled "Late stages of stellar evolution" (1968, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics). His doctoral thesis was titled "The equilibrium and stability of stars and stellar systems" (1977, Russian Space Research Institute).