Frank Drake
Astronomer
1930 –
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Who is Frank Drake?
Frank Donald Drake Ph.D. is an American astronomer and astrophysicist. He is most notable as one of the pioneers 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 astronomical and biological description of the Earth and its lifeforms for transmission into the cosmos.
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- Born
- May 28, 1930
Chicago - Also known as
- Frank D. Drake
- Frank B. Drake
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Harvard University
- Employment
- University of California, Santa Cruz
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on July 23, 2013
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