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Frank Drake

1930 - 2022

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Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Drake has received more than 620,019 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Frank Drake is the 118th most popular astronomer (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,613th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,604th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Frank Drake ranks 118 out of 644. Before him are Édouard Stephan, Mary Somerville, Edward Charles Pickering, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Walter Sydney Adams, and Heinrich Schwabe. After him are Ernst Öpik, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Cleveland Abbe, Eric Walter Elst, Ali Qushji, and Hermann Goldschmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Frank Drake ranks 96. Before him are Ed White, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Michal Kováč, Mario Adorf, Edgar Mitchell, and Hilderaldo Bellini. After him are Harvey Milk, Itamar Franco, Mauro Ramos, Martin Karplus, José Sarney, and John Frankenheimer. Among people deceased in 2022, Frank Drake ranks 76. Before him are Boris Pahor, Cüneyt Arkın, Javier Marías, Sidney Altman, Edward C. Prescott, and Ruggero Deodato. After him are David Warner, Wim Jansen, Eric Walter Elst, Leonel Sánchez, Luis Echeverría, and Peter Bogdanovich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Drake ranks 1,613 out of 20,380. Before him are James McKeen Cattell (1860), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), and Joseph Nye (1937). After him are Sidney Bechet (1897), Cliff Robertson (1923), Edward James Olmos (1947), Karen Allen (1951), Frederick Herzberg (1923), and Billy Milligan (1955).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Frank Drake ranks 21. Before him are Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), James Van Allen (1914), Henry Norris Russell (1877), and Edward Charles Pickering (1846). After him are Cleveland Abbe (1838), Maria Mitchell (1818), Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Henry Draper (1837), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), and Andrea M. Ghez (1965).

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