Frank Drake
Biography
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.
Known For
All Movies (4)
- Starman2025
- The Farthest2018 · as Self
- The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins2014 · as Self - Astronomer
- Target... Earth?1980 · as Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)
All TV Shows (1)
- Gaia Symphony1992 · as Self




