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Also known as Frank Donald Drake, Dr. Frank Donald Drake

American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)

Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • The manganese-ore industry of the Caucasus
  • SETI science working group report
  • Intelligent life in space
  • Is anyone out there?
  • Thy son liveth

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Frank Donald Drake (born May 28, 1930) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist. He is involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first observational attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1960 in Project Ozma, developing the Drake equation, and as the creator of the Arecibo Message, a digital encoding of an…

Known for

  • The Farthest — Self2018
  • The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins — Self - Astronomer2014
  • Gaia Symphony — Self1992
  • Target... Earth? — Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)1980

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1930
Active to
2022
alternative r&bcontemporary r&bhardcore hip hophip hophip-hoppop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
24
Total plays
49

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Quotes

  • Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.

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Key facts

Born
Frank Donald Drake , ( 1930-05-28 ) May 28, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died
September 2, 2022 (2022-09-02) (aged 92), Aptos, California , U.S.
Alma mater
Cornell University Harvard University
Known for
Arecibo message Drake equation Pioneer plaque Project Ozma Voyager Golden Record
Spouses
Elizabeth Procter Bell ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1952 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1976 ) ​ Amahl Shakhashiri ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ) ​
Children
5, including Nadia
Fields
Astronomy , astrophysics
Institutions
University of California, Santa Cruz , SETI Institute , Cornell University
Thesis
Neutral hydrogen in galactic clusters (1958)
Doctoral advisor
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Doctoral students
Donald C. Backer

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Encyclopedic overview

Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.

He began his career as a radio astronomer, studying the planets of the Solar System and later pulsars. Drake expanded his interests to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, an attempt at extraterrestrial communication. He developed the Drake equation, which attempts to quantify the number of intelligent lifeforms that could potentially be discovered. Working with Carl Sagan, Drake helped to design the Pioneer plaque, the first physical message flown beyond the Solar System, and was part of the team that developed the Voyager Golden Record. Drake designed and implemented the Arecibo message in 1974, an extraterrestrial radio transmission of astronomical and biological information about Earth. He is the father of Advanced SETI.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frank Drake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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