Frank Drake

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Born 1930-05-28 Chicago, Illinois 5 credits Karl G. Jansky Lectureship 1 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 American Astronomical Society Education Prize 1

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Won 1 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship Award

Karl G. Jansky Lectureship 1 won

— Karl G. Jansky Lectureship Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 won

— Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Won

American Astronomical Society Education Prize 1 won

2001 American Astronomical Society Education Prize Won

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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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