Frank drake biography summary
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| 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. |
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| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Procter Bell (m.1952; div. 1976) Amahl Shakhashiri (m.Drake rapper, biography1978) |
| Children | 5, including Nadia |
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| Fields | Astronomy, astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz, SETI |
| Doctoral advisor | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
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 communications. He developed