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Frank Drake

Physics

#107

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#214

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#58

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Astronomy

#7

World Rank

#25

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#4

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Astrophysics

#34

World Rank

#35

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#13

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Bachelors Physics Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, 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 , beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, an attempt at extraterrestrial communications. 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 the Pioneer plaque, the first physical message flown beyond the Solar System, and was part of the team that developed the Voyager record. Drake designed and implemented the Arecibo message in 1974, an extraterrestrial radio transmission of astronomical and biological information about Earth.

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Frank Drake's Published Works

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Occultation Experiment: Results of the First Direct Measurement of Mars's Atmosphere and Ionosphere (1965) (289)
Is Anyone Out There (1992) (69)
Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1994) (65)
The polarization and intensity of thermal radiation from a planetary surface (1963) (62)
A message from Earth. (1972) (58)
CHAPTER IX – THE RADIO SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE (1965) (57)
Non-thermal microwave radiation from Jupiter. (1959) (57)
The Radio Search for Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life (1965) (49)
How Can We Detect Radio Transmissions from Distant Planetary Systems (1960) (29)
Lick Observatory Optical SETI: targeted search and new directions. (2005) (28)
Intelligent Life in Space (1962) (28)
Improved optical SETI detector (2001) (28)
The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (2011) (27)
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: overall specifications and science program (2018) (23)
The entropy of terrestrial solar radiation (1992) (20)
Symposium on Radar and Radiometric Observations of Venus during the 1962 Conjunction: Microwave observations of Venus, 1962-1963 (1964) (19)
A near-infrared SETI experiment: instrument overview (2014) (18)
A High-Resolution Radio Map of the Cygnus X Region. (1964) (18)
Stars as Gravitational Lenses (1988) (16)
Pulse Structure of the Pulsating Radio Source in Vulpecula (1968) (14)
The rapidly pulsating radio source in vulpecula. (1968) (14)
10-CM Observations of Jupiter, 1961-1963. (1964) (12)
SETI science working group report (1984) (12)
A near-infrared SETI experiment: commissioning, data analysis, and performance results (2016) (11)
A near-infrared SETI experiment: probability distribution of false coincidences (2014) (10)
Area Coverage of Expanding E.T. Signals in the Galaxy: SETI and Drake’s N (2018) (9)
A Reminiscence of Project Ozma (1979) (9)
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: prototype design and testing (2018) (9)
Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: optical and structural design concepts (2018) (8)
Radio emission from the planets (1961) (7)
Search for Nanosecond Near-infrared Transients around 1280 Celestial Objects (2019) (7)
Reflections on the Equation (2013) (7)
The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe (1998) (6)
RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF THE CRAB NEBULA (1970) (6)
Panoramic SETI: An all-sky fast time-domain observatory (2019) (5)
The Drake Equation (2015) (5)
Neutral hydrogen in galactic clusters. (1958) (4)
Progress in the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life (1994) (3)
Progress in Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Radio Signals (1996) (2)
Improbability of Non-Thermal Radio Emission from Venus Water Clouds (1967) (2)
A Comparative Analysis of Space Colonization Enterprises (1985) (2)
New Paradigms for SETI (2001) (2)
Optical SETI at Lick Observatory: A Status Report (2004) (2)
The nature of the radio source Cygnus X (1959) (2)
On the nature of the composite radio source Cygnus X (1959) (2)
Very large Arecibo-type telescopes (1988) (1)
Fraction of stars with planetary systems, fp, pre-1961 (2015) (1)
Commission 51: Search for Extraterrestrial Life (1985) (1)
A 21-cm investigation of the Pleiades (1956) (1)
On the Plausibility of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds (2017) (1)
A search for the 1.36-cm water-vapor line in Venus (1965) (1)
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Significance of the Search (1997) (1)
Discovery of the Jupiter Radiation Belts (1984) (1)
When the Brightest is the Farthest (1981) (1)
Extraterrestrial intelligence: the debate continues. The readers respond to Tipler (1982) (1)
Panoramic SETI: overall focal plane electronics and timing and network protocols (2020) (1)
In Which Klingons Became Chimeras (1981) (1)
SETI - High sensitivity searches at NASA with high speed tape recorders (1979) (1)
Will the real SETI please stand up (1982) (1)
White paper for the Voyage 2050 long-term plan in the ESA Science Programme Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infared: biosignatures, habitability & diversity (2019) (1)
The radio search for extraterrestrial intelligent life (1976) (0)
A near-infrared SETI experiment: A multi-time resolution data analysis (2016) (0)
Number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life, ne, 1961 to the present (2015) (0)
A Conversation with Frank Drake (2012) (0)
The Littlest Astronomer. (1963) (0)
Neutral hydrogen in galactic clusters (1959) (0)
Benefits to the nation from astronomy and astrophysics (1991) (0)
B. Continuum Radiation from the Galaxy (1973) (0)
Commission 51: Bioastronomy: Search for Extraterrestrial Life (1997) (0)
Astronomer at large. (1991) (0)
Reflections on the modern history of SETI (1992) (0)
Remarks on the Radio Emission from the Gamma Cygni Nebulosity. (1960) (0)
Book-Review - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Slide-Set (1988) (0)
SETI Tallinn-81 - Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1982) (0)
Earth’s Ambassador: A contextual history of the Voyager interstellar message (0)
Cost of a Facelift (1970) (0)
Space missions for SETI. (1999) (0)
Summary of Scientific Content of the Symposium (1991) (0)
Preliminary Program (1975) (0)
PESEK Lecture: Promising New Approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2002) (0)
Panel on Space Station utilization benefits (1987) (0)
High-resolution radio map of the galactic center (1966) (0)
Bernard M. Oliver (1916–1995) (1996) (0)
Analysis of Planetary Surface Parameters through Observation of Polarized Thermal Radio Emission. (1964) (0)
A Message from Earth Author ( s ) : (2009) (0)
A near-Infrared SETI Experiment: Alignment and Astrometric precision (2016) (0)
Obituary: Bernard M. Oliver, 1916-1995 (1996) (0)
Putting the Cosmos on "Hold" (1982) (0)
51. Bioastronomy - Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Bioastronomie - Recherche De La Vie Dans L’univers (1988) (0)
Recent radio observations of the planet Venus (1966) (0)
Summary of the Conference (1997) (0)
Extraterrestrial intelligence. (1993) (0)

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