Frank Drake
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Frank Donald Drake was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.
Drake in 2012
Frank Drake in the 1960s
Frank Drake poses with the NRAO's first radio telescope, the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel.
Drake equation
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The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Frank Drake
…search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, an attempt at extraterrestrial communication. He developed the Drake equation, which attempts to quantify the number of intelligent lifeforms that could potentially be discovered. Working with Carl Sagan, Drake helped to design…
Completed 300 Foot Telescope. Frank Drake is the second from left.
The Allen Telescope Array for SETI
Commemorative plate on Europa Clipper