Biography
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 astronomical and biological description of the Earth and its lifeforms for transmission into the cosmos.
Filmography
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self 9
TV Shows 5
Movies 4
Self - Astronomer
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (2014)
Movie
Self - Dr. Frank Drake
Catalyst (2014)
TV
Self - SETI Founder
The Search for Life: The Drake Equation (2010)
Movie
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GenderMale
Birthday1930-05-28
Deathday2022-09-02 (92 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States
ChildrenNadia Drake
CitizenshipsUnited States
AwardsAmerican Astronomical Society Education Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
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