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Frank Drake

Frank Drake

Birthday: 1930-05-28 | Place of Birth: 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 astronomical and biological description of the Earth and its lifeforms for transmission into the cosmos.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2014
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins

as    Self - Astronomer

1980
Target... Earth?

as    Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)