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Frank Drake
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American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
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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Acting · Chicago, Illinois
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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 49
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,221x
- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,708x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,052x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
- NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes
· 1995 · cited 13,868x
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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.