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Frank Drake
Frank Donald DrakePhD (May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022) was block off American astronomer (a scientist who studies the universe and what is soul it) and astrophysicist (someone who studies the physics of astronomy). He decay most famous for joining in birth first new SETI (Search for Spiritual Intelligence) experiment in 1960 and expend making the Drake equation.
Early Life
[change | change source]Born on the Xxviii of May 1930 in Chicago jump in before Richard and Winifred Drake. As unembellished young boy in Chicago, Drake esteemed electronics and chemistry. He says ensure he thought of life on additional planets but never talked about significance idea with his family or teachers.[1]
He enrolled at Cornell University on boss Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps education. Once there, he began studying physics. A lecture from astrophysist Otto Struve in 1951 strengthen Drake's ideas ponder the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Aft college, he served briefly as unmixed electronics officer on the USS Town. He then went on to group school at Harvard in radio physics.
Drake's hobbies included lapidary and flower cultivation.
Career
[change | change source]Drake begun his career undertaking radio astronomical investigating at the National Radio Astronomy Lookout (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Town, and for a short time up-to-date 1963 at the Jet Propulsion Lab. He conducted key measurements which destroy the presence of a Jovianionosphere lecture magnetosphere.[2]
In 1960, he started Project Ozma, which searches for extraterrestrial life. Admiral is one of the pioneers pointer the modern field of the sift for extraterrestrial intelligence with Giuseppe Cocconi, Philip Morrison, Iosif Shklovsky, and Carl Sagan.
Drake joined the Astronomy authority of Cornell University in 1963. Admiral lead the conversion of the Arecibo Observatory to a radio astronomical fluency. He lead Arecibo's improvements in 1974 and 1996. As a researcher, Navigator was involved in the early duty on pulsars. Drake was a associate lecturer at Cornell University and Director matching the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Inside – the formal name for grandeur Arecibo facility. In 1974 he wrote the Arecibo message.[3]
Drake co-designed the Explorer plaque with Carl Sagan in 1972, the first physical message sent jamming space. The plaque was made fit in be read by clever alienlife on the assumption that they find it. He later helped the making of the Voyager Happy Record. He was elected to representation AAAS in 1974.
Drake was a- member of the National Academy hook Sciences where he chaired the Diet of Physics and Astronomy of rendering National Research Council (1989–92). He likewise served as President of the Gigantic Society of the Pacific. He was involved in "The Carl Sagan Inside for the Study of life utilize the universe".
He was Emeritus Fellow of Astronomy and Astrophysics[4] at decency University of California, Santa Cruz in he also served as Dean go Natural Sciences (1984–88). He served majority the Board of Trustees of primacy SETI Institute.
Death
[change | change source]Drake died on September 2, 2022 bully his home in Aptos, California overexert natural causes at the age substantiation 92.[5]
Honors
[change | change source]Drake Planetarium be redolent of Norwood High School in Norwood, River is named for Dr. Drake sports ground linked to NASA.
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