Frank Drake Children: How many Children did Frank Drake have?

Frank Drake, the American radio astronomer and astrophysicist noted for pioneering the work on the search for extraterrestrial life has died. He died on September 2 at his home in Aptos, California, at the age of 92.

How many children did Frank Drake have? Drake had one child, a daughter, known as Nadia Drake.

Frank Drake’s daughter, Nadia is a science journalist and contributing writer at National Geographic.

She earned an A.B. in biology, psychology, and dance at Cornell University, worked in a clinical genetics lab at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, then returned to Cornell for her Ph.D. in genetics and development.

In 2017, she won the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for “Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime,” which was published on National Geographic’s website on February 11, 2016.

In 2016, she received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for her article “Scientists in Flying Telescope Race to Intercept Pluto’s Shadow,” which appeared July 3, 2015, on National Geographic’s website.