Frank Drake ex-Wife: Who is Elizabeth Procter Bell?

Elizabeth Procter Bell is a composer who was the first wife of astronomer and astrophysicist, Frank Drake.

Frank Drake and Elizabeth Bell had three sons: Paul became a photographer, and Stephen and Richard both became musicians. The couple divorced after some years of marriage.

Frank Drake is best known for developing the Drake equation, which can be used to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.

Drake played an important role in the composition of messages sent from Earth in the hope that an alien civilization will discover and read them one day.

Drake was the first person to map the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, and he coined the term “pulsar” to describe rapidly rotating neutron stars.

Frank Drake passed away on September 2, 2022, at his home in Aptos, California, from natural causes at the age of 92.