Frank Drake

Frank Donald Drake 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.

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Legendary Astronomer Frank Drake has Passed Away

SETI pioneer Frank Drake, of 'Drake Equation' fame, dies at 92

SETI pioneer Frank Drake, of 'Drake Equation' fame, dies at 92

Frank Drake, astronomer famed for contributions to SETI, has died

Astronomer and Astrophysicist Frank Drake has passed away.

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