Famous astronmer: Frank Drake.

Frank Drake is a famous astronmer. He was born in Chicago on May 28, 1930. He lived a normal average childhood life in Chicago. Frank had two other siblings; brother, Frank and sister, Alma. Frank had always been very intrested in astronomy right from when he was a child. Instead of playing video games or playing around with toys, Frank and his friends would spend hours experimenting on radios and chemistry sets. He had fallen in love with science right from his childhood.

At the age of 8 Frank started to think that there was a possiblity of life on other planets but Frank didn't feel comfortable discusing this topic with his parents or teachers due to religous problems. So, he kept it to himself. His knowlefge about the universe began to grow and grow as he got older.
Eventually Frank succesfully completed highschool and went on to university at Cornell on an ROTC scholarship to study electronics. But he had fallen in love with raido astronomy so that is what he had decided to study. As he was studying there, his idea of life existing on other planets had expanded and he had become more and more intrested in that topic since he had gotten a lecture from one of the world's preeminent astrophysicists. He had finally found someone else who had belived that there was life one other planets, so that definality inspried him.

After Frank completed his education he got a job at the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a officer there. At one of the conferences that Frank had attended, he came up with the "Drake Equation". Which is what he is most famous for. Frank also worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab and Cornell's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. Frank decided to go back to Cornell with his family.