With awardee Dan Werthimer, co-founder of the SETI@home supercomputing mesh and chief scientist at the Berkeley SETI Research Center who developed ever-more-sensitive radio receivers to aid the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. And host Reema Khan.
Morgan Freeman presented the really big picture: video
The award honors Frank Drake, whose Drake Equation first identified the specific factors necessary for the emergence of life in the Universe and the evolution of technological civilizations. This honor is given at the discretion of the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute, based on nominations from its Science Advisory Board. The Award was initially presented to Frank Drake in 2001. Congrats to Dan Werthimer for the 2021 Award for developing novel radio spectrometers and optical SETI detection systems.
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