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* Frank Drake - The SETI Project and the Drake Equation (4 books)
FRANK D. DRAKE (1930–2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist. Often called the father of SETI — the search for extraterrestrial intelligence — Drake made the first attempt to detect radio transmissions from life beyond Earth in 1960.
Drake began his career as a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, studying the planets of the Solar System and later pulsars. He conducted key measurements that revealed the presence of a Jovian ionosphere and magnetosphere, and observed the atmosphere of Venus. Drake expanded his interests to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, beginning with Project OZMA in 1960, the first organized search for radio signals from worlds beyond our own. He developed the Drake Equation, which attempted estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations that might be detectable in the Milky Way, and has been described as the "second most-famous equation in science", after E=mc2.
In the early 1970s, he co-designed (with astronomer Carl Sagan) the plaques, bearing pictorial messages to any beings that might intercept them, carried aboard NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 probes. In 1974, he led the composition of the Arecibo message, a radio transmission conveying astronomical and biological information about Earth that was beamed to the star cluster M13. Drake later served as technical director, with Sagan and Ann Druyan, in the development of the Voyager Golden Record (see my accompanying torrent), a 12-inch gold-plated copper disc that compiled sights and sounds of Earth and humanity and that was launched onboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in 1977, along with a ceramic phonograph cartridge with which to play it.
In 1984, Drake moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. He went on to direct the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, a non-profit research centre in Mountain View, California, dedicated to all aspects of the Drake Equation, and to chair its board of trustees. He retired from teaching in 1996 but remained emeritus professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC, and continued to serve on the SETI Institute's board of trustees.
IS ANYONE OUT THERE? (1992) is Drake's autobiographical chronicle of one man's dedication to pioneering and legitimizing a new field of study — the science of interstellar contact. As Drake states in the preface, "This book is the behind-the-scenes story of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence as I have lived it, with all my reminiscences and impressions of the events, and especially the people involved. But it is not simply a chronicle of an interesting chapter in the history of science. I am telling my story because I see a pressing need to prepare thinking adults for the outcome of the present search activity — the imminent detection of signals from an extraterrestrial civilization." Under realistic estimates, he said in a recent interview, a search for extraterrestrial life would need to look at 10 million stars (there are at least 100 billion in the galaxy). So far, only a few thousand have been examined.
Frank Drake died at his home in Aptos, California, on September 2, 2022.
The following books, and 100 unlisted academic papers and other contributions, are in PDF format unless otherwise noted:
* Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for ET [with Sobel] (Delacorte, 1992) * "Foundations of the Voyager Record," in Murmurs of Earth (1979) – ePUB * SETI Science Working Group Report, NASA TP 2244 [ed.] (1984)
== Also Included ==
* The Drake Equation: Estimating the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Life through the Ages (Cambridge, 2015). Vakoch & Dowd, eds.
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Drake Equation, The [ed. Vakoch & Dowd]/Vakoch, Douglas (ed.) - The Drake Equation (Cambridge, 2015).jpg
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Drake Equation, The [ed. Vakoch & Dowd]/Vakoch, Douglas (ed.) - The Drake Equation (Cambridge, 2015).pdf
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Is Anyone Out There [with D. Sobel]/Drake, Frank - Is Anyone Out There (Delacorte, 1992).jpg
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Is Anyone Out There [with D. Sobel]/Drake, Frank - Is Anyone Out There (Delacorte, 1992).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - 10-cm Observations of Jupiter, 1961-1963 (1964).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - 10-cm Observations of Venus in 1961 (1962).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - 10-cm Observations of Venus near Superior Conjunction (1962).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Broad-Band Microwave Source Comparison Radiometer... (1958).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Comparative Analysis of Space Colonization Enterprises (1985).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A High-Resolution Radio Map of the Cygnus X Region (1964).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Near-infrared SETI Experiment_ Commissioning... (2016).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Near-infrared SETI Experiment_ Instrument Overview (2014).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Near-infrared SETI Experiment_ Probability Distribution... (2014).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Reminiscence of Project Ozma (1979).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Review of the History, Status and Course of Radio Astronomy (1963).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A search for radio spectral lines from SS 433 (1980).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - A Speculation on the Influence of Biological Immortality on SETI (1980).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Afterword to Infinite Worlds (2005).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - An Evolutionary Sequence for Strong Radio Sources (1967).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - An Improved Optical SETI Detector (2001).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Antenna Feeds for the Arecibo Telescope (1984).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Area Coverage of Expanding E.T. Signals in the Galaxy (2018).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Arecibo Observatory Report (1973).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Astronomer at Large [review] (1991).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Bioastronomy - Search for Extraterrestrial Life (1988).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Biographical Sketch (2005).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Commission 51_ Search for Extraterrestrial Life (1985).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence [review] (1980).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Cost of a Facelift (1970).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Discovery of the Jupiter Radiation Belts (1983).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Estimates of the Relative Probability of Success of SETI... (1984).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Extraterrestrial intelligence [letter] (1993).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Extraterrestrial Intelligence_ The Debate Continues (1982).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Foreward to The Drake Equation, ed. Vakoch (2015).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - How to Detect Radio Transmissions from Distant Planets (1966).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Improbability of Non-Thermal Radio Emission from Venus Water Clouds (1967).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - In Which Klingons Became Chimeras (1981).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Intelligent Life in Other Parts of the Universe (1968).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Interferometric Observations of Mars at 21-cm Wavelength (1972).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Interstellar Radio Communication and Frequency Selection (1973).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Interview (1990).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Lick Observatory Optical SETI (2005).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Messages from the Stars [review] (1979).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Microwave Observations of Venus, 1962-1963 (1964).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Microwave Spectrum of Saturn (1962).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - N is neither very small nor very large (1979).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Neutral Hydrogen in Galactic Clusters (1959).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - New Paradigms for SETI (2001).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - NRAO’s First Millimeter Wave Telescopes (2007).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Obituary, 1930-2022 (NYT, 7 September 2022).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Occultation Experiment (1965).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - On the Abilities and Limitations of Witnesses of UFOs... (1972).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - On the Nature of the Composite Radio Source Cygnus X (1959).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - On the Tenth of Apollo 11 (Galileo magazine, September 1979).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - One Minute with… (2010).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Optical SETI at Lick Observatory (2004).pdf
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Miscellaneous Papers/Drake, Frank - Optimum Size of Radio Astronomy Antennas (1964).pdf
