Frank Drake
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title:
Frank Drake
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Frank Donald Drake 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 communication. He developed the Drake equation, which attempts to quantify the number of intelligent lifeforms that could potentially be discovered. Working with Carl Sagan,
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American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake
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2002-05-31T11:15:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T20:26:58Z
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