Birth Name:

Frank Drake

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, May 28, 1930

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

94

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

6°

Gem

37'

About Frank Drake

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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Frank Drake's academic tree.

• Frank Drake's 2010 article on "The Origin of the Drake Equation"

• "Finding Aliens ‘Only a Matter of Time’, Says Father of SETI" A Q&A with Frank Drake about his famous equation and the meaning of SETI, from an interview in February 2010, leading up to the 50th birthday of SETI.

• "Estimating the Chances of Life Out There" on YouTube A public talk by Frank Drake in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series.

• 2012 Interview with Frank Drake looking back on his career

• 2014 closertotruth.com Interview with Frank Drake looking at the question of Intelligent E.T. and a Space based Radio Telescope.

• "The Drake Equation" – Astronomy Cast transcript (html), Fraser Cain and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor, Dr. Pamela Gay, Monday February 12, 2007. (Full pdf transcript.)

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Frank Drake

Astrological portrait of Frank Drake

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Frank Drake: Sun 6 Gemini, Moon 12 Gemini, Mercury 24 Taurus, Venus 4 Cancer, Mars 25 Aries, Jupiter 23 Gemini, Saturn 10 Capricorn, Uranus 14 Aries, Neptune 0 Virgo, Pluto 18 Cancer, Mercury Semi Sextile Mars, Mercury Semi Sextile Jupiter, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Venus Sextile Neptune, Mars Sextile Jupiter, Mars Trine Neptune, Saturn Square Uranus, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

Categories related to Frank Drake: Living people, American astronomers, Harvard University alumni, May 28 births, University of California, 1930 births, Cornell University alumni, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, United States Navy officers, Scientists from Chicago, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Military personnel from Illinois, Santa Cruz faculty, Interstellar messages

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