1930 - 2022
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 communications. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Drake has received more than 575,147 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Frank Drake is the 104th most popular astronomer (up from 114th in 2019), the 1,604th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,589th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Frank Drake ranks 104 out of 531. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Karl Ludwig Hencke, J. Allen Hynek, James Van Allen, Mary Somerville, and Reinhard Genzel. After him are Edward Charles Pickering, George Biddell Airy, Ernst Öpik, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, and Heinrich Schwabe.
1892 - 1979
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 98
1793 - 1866
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 99
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 100
1914 - 2006
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 101
1780 - 1872
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 102
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 103
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 104
1846 - 1919
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 105
1801 - 1892
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 106
1893 - 1985
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 107
1900 - 1979
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 108
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 109
1789 - 1875
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 110
Among people born in 1930, Frank Drake ranks 91. Before him are Sonny Rollins, Mario Adorf, James Irwin, Friedrich Gulda, Edgar Mitchell, and Ed White. After him are Choe Yong-rim, Toru Takemitsu, Itamar Franco, Rod Taylor, Elza Soares, and Barbara. Among people deceased in 2022, Frank Drake ranks 81. Before him are Margarita Lozano, Shintaro Ishihara, Angelo Badalamenti, Luis Echeverría, Sidney Altman, and Leonid Kuravlyov. After him are Gary Brooker, Kirstie Alley, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Cüneyt Arkın, Elza Soares, and Teresa Berganza.
1930 - Present
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 85
1930 - Present
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 86
1930 - 1991
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 87
1930 - 2000
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 88
1930 - 2016
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 89
1930 - 1967
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 90
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 91
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 92
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 93
1930 - 2011
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 94
1930 - 2015
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 95
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 96
1930 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 97
1931 - 2022
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 75
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 76
1937 - 2022
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 77
1922 - 2022
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 78
1939 - 2022
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 79
1936 - 2022
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 80
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 81
1945 - 2022
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 82
1951 - 2022
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 83
1938 - 2022
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 84
1937 - 2022
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 85
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 86
1933 - 2022
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 87
Among people born in United States, Frank Drake ranks 1,604 out of 18,182. Before him are Macaulay Culkin (1980), Ralph Bellamy (1904), Raoul Walsh (1887), Elijah Muhammad (1897), Lou Ferrigno (1951), and Robert Patrick (1958). After him are River Phoenix (1970), Chadwick Boseman (1977), Walter Brennan (1894), Emilio Estevez (1962), Chris Cooper (1951), and Martha Nussbaum (1947).
1980 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 1,598
1904 - 1991
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,599
1887 - 1980
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,600
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,601
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,602
1958 - Present
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,603
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,604
1970 - 1993
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,605
1977 - 2020
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,606
1894 - 1974
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,607
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,608
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,609
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,610
Among astronomers born in United States, Frank Drake ranks 19. Before him are Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), J. Allen Hynek (1910), and James Van Allen (1914). After him are Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Harlow Shapley (1885), Maria Mitchell (1818), and Annie Jump Cannon (1863).
1820 - 1913
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 13
1857 - 1923
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 14
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 16
1910 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 17
1914 - 2006
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 18
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 19
1846 - 1919
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 20
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 21
1877 - 1957
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 22
1885 - 1972
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 23
1818 - 1889
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 24
1863 - 1941
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 25