query: Where is the Keck telescope?

title: W. M. Keck Observatory

text: W. M. Keck Foundation. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) joined the partnership in October 1996, at the time Keck II commenced observations. Telescope time is allocated by the partner institutions. Caltech, the University of Hawaii System, and the University of California accept proposals from their own researchers. NASA accepts proposals from researchers based in the United States. Jerry Nelson was the project scientist for the Keck Telescope, and he also contributed to later multi-mirror projects until he died in June 2017. Nelson was behind one of the key innovations of the Keck telescope, the use of multiple thin

title: William Myron Keck

text: the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel, California. In 1954 he founded the W. M. Keck Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. The organization has funded the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Keck School of Medicine at USC. His foundation provided $70 million of the $87 million cost of the Keck Telescope on the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano, which upon its start of construction in 1990, was to be the largest astronomical telescope in the world. William Myron Keck William Myron Keck (April 27, 1880 – August 20, 1964) was

title: W. M. Keck Observatory

text: W. M. Keck Observatory The W. M. Keck Observatory is a two-telescope astronomical observatory at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes feature primary mirrors, currently among the largest astronomical telescopes in use. With a concept first proposed in 1977, telescope designers at the University of California (Terry Mast) and Lawrence Berkeley Labs (Jerry Nelson) had been developing the technology necessary to build a large, ground-based telescope. With a design in hand, a search for the funding began. In 1985, Howard B. Keck of the W.

title: W. M. Keck Observatory

text: segments acting as one mirror to provide the reflecting surface. Both Keck Observatory telescopes are equipped with laser guide star adaptive optics, which compensates for the blurring due to atmospheric turbulence. The first AO system operational on a large telescope, the equipment has been constantly upgraded to expand the capability. W. M. Keck Observatory The W. M. Keck Observatory is a two-telescope astronomical observatory at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes feature primary mirrors, currently among the largest astronomical telescopes in use. With a concept

title: Howard Keck

text: and the Keck Distinguished Young Scholar Awards program. In 1985, Keck gave $70 million to the California Institute of Technology to fund the design and construction of the Keck I Telescope on the summit of Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano. Under Howard Keck, the Foundation grew from $250 million to more than $1.2 billion and as one of the leading grant-giving organizations in the United States has given away in excess of a billion dollars. In addition to owning the 1953 and 1954 winning Indianapolis 500 team, Howard Keck and his wife Elizabeth were prominent figures in the American Thoroughbred

title: Nasmyth telescope

text: research observatories. Most modern research telescopes can be configured into a Nasmyth telescope (i.e. to use the "Nasmyth Focus"). The twin 10-meter telescopes at W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope sited next to them support an array of specialized instruments on Nasmyth platforms, with a similar design being used for the future Thirty Meter Telescope. The 2.4-meter Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory supports the use of two Nasmyth foci. The Sierra Nevada Observatory (OSN) in Spain has two Nasmyth telescopes, including a 1.5-meter diameter aperture one. The SOFIA airborne telescope also uses this

title: History of the telescope

text: telescopes were built on superior higher altitude sites including Hawaii and the Chilean desert in the 1975–1985 era. The development of the computer-controlled alt-azimuth mount in the 1970s and active optics in the 1980s enabled a new generation of even larger telescopes, starting with the 10-metre (400 inch) Keck telescopes in 1993/1996, and a number of 8-metre telescopes including the ESO Very Large Telescope, Gemini Observatory and Subaru Telescope. The era of radio telescopes (along with radio astronomy) was born with Karl Guthe Jansky's serendipitous discovery of an astronomical radio source in 1931. Many types of telescopes were developed in

title: C. Donald Shane telescope

text: University of California's two Keck telescopes in Hawaii. Instrumentation currently in operation at the Shane telescope includes: For Lick Observatory's first 55 years of operation, its astronomers relied on two telescopes built in the 19th century. Once considered giants in the field, they had become obsolete. International competition was mounting. The 120-inch reflector addition took 15 years to complete, being completed in 1959. It would be the second-largest telescope in the world, taking its place behind the then World's largest 200-inch Palomar Hale Telescope. The Shane telescope saw first light to a different world for large telescopes in 1959: C.

title: Thirty Meter Telescope

text: not exist; instead scientists considered using either small segments that create one large mirror, or a grouping of larger 8-meter mirrors working as one unit. The US National Academy of Sciences recommended a 30-meter telescope be the focus of U.S. interests, seeking to see it built within the decade. Scientists at the University of California and Caltech began development of a design that would eventually become the TMT, consisting of 492 segmented mirrors with nine times the power of the Keck telescope. Due to its immense light-gathering power and the optimal observing conditions which exist atop Mauna Kea, the TMT

title: Samuel Oschin telescope

text: more than 500 boxes that were transported to Palomar. All of the volunteers were presented with the gift of having asteroids named after them, compliments of Carolyn S. Shoemaker: , , , , , , , , , and . Mueller was also rewarded by a visit to the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The Oschin Telescope was responsible for the discovery of 90377 Sedna on 2003-11-14 and Eris, the "10th Planet" on 2005-01-05 from images taken 2003-10-21. The peculiar Type Ia supernova SN 2002cx was discovered with the Oschin telescope on 2002 May 12.21 UT. Other discoveries include 90482 Orcus

title: W. M. Keck Observatory

text: M. Keck Foundation gave $70 million to fund the construction of the Keck I telescope. Construction of Keck I began in September 1985, with first light occurring on 24 November 1990 using only nine of the eventual 36 segments. With construction of the first telescope well advanced, further donations allowed the construction of a second telescope starting in 1991. The Keck I telescope began science observations in May 1993, while first light for Keck II occurred on October 23, 1996. The key advance that allowed the construction of the Keck Observatory's large telescopes was the ability to operate smaller mirror

title: BICEP and Keck Array

text: subject of the book by Brian Keating. Immediately next to the BICEP telescope at the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory building at the South Pole was an unused telescope mount previously occupied by the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. The "Keck Array" was built to take advantage of this larger telescope mount. This project was funded by $2.3 million from W. M. Keck Foundation, as well as funding from the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the James and Nelly Kilroy Foundation and the Barzan Foundation. The Keck Array project was originally led by Andrew Lange. The Keck Array

title: W. M. Keck Observatory

text: each segment, relative to its neighbors, to an accuracy of four nanometers. This twice-per-second adjustment counters the effect of gravity as the telescope moves, in addition to other environmental and structural effects that can affect the mirror shape. Each Keck Observatory telescope sits on an altazimuth mount. Most current 8–10 m class telescopes use altazimuth designs due to the reduced structural requirements compared to older equatorial designs. This mounting style provides the greatest strength and stiffness for the least amount of steel, which, for Keck Observatory, totals about 270 tons per telescope. The total weight of each telescope is more

title: BICEP and Keck Array

text: BICEP3 consists of a single telescope with the same 2560 detectors (observing at 95 GHz) as the five-telescope Keck array, but a 68 cm aperture, providing roughly twice the optical throughput of the entire Keck array. One consequence of the large focal plane is a larger 28° field of view, which will necessarily mean scanning some foreground-contaminated portions of the sky. It was installed at the pole in January 2015. The Keck array is being succeeded by the BICEP array, which adds more receivers, and also observes at 35 GHz, installed between the 2017 and 2018 observing seasons. BICEP and

title: Hale Telescope

text: mirror.. It was completed in 1948 and is still in active use. The Hale Telescope represented the technological limit in building large optical telescopes for over 30 years. It was the largest telescope in the world until the Russian BTA-6 was built in 1976, and the second largest until the construction of the Keck Observatory Keck 1 in 1993. Hale supervised the building of the telescopes at the Mount Wilson Observatory with grants from the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the telescope in 1908 and the telescope in 1917. These telescopes were very successful, leading to the rapid advance in understanding

title: BICEP and Keck Array

text: 2560 detectors, or 1280 dual-polarization pixels. In October 2018, the first results from the Keck Array (combined with BICEP2 data) were announced, using observations up to and including the 2015 season. These yielded an upper limit on cosmological B-modes of formula_1 (95% confidence level), which reduces to formula_2 in combination with Planck data. Once the Keck array was completed in 2012, it was no longer cost-effective to continue to operate BICEP2. However, using the same technique as the Keck array to eliminate the large liquid helium dewar, a much larger telescope has been installed on the original BICEP telescope mount.

title: Telescope Array Project

text: the cost of conventional detection systems. In September 2012, the W. M. Keck Foundation awarded researchers at the University of Utah a $1 million grant to develop a bistatic radar detection system. This system will be built alongside the existing Telescope Array and will use analog television transmitters and digital receivers to observe the range, direction and strength of cosmic rays in order to trace them back to their point of origin. Once completed, this new facility will be known as the W.M. Keck Radar Observatory Telescope Array Project The Telescope Array project is an international collaboration involving research and

title: Ritchey–Chrétien telescope

text: world-leading telescope to have a parabolic primary mirror. Ritchey–Chrétien telescope A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors (coma). The RCT has a wider field of view free of optical errors compared to a more traditional reflecting telescope configuration. Since the mid 20th century, a majority of large professional research telescopes have been Ritchey–Chrétien configurations; some well-known examples are the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck telescopes and the ESO Very Large Telescope. The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope was

title: Ritchey–Chrétien telescope

text: Ritchey–Chrétien telescope A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors (coma). The RCT has a wider field of view free of optical errors compared to a more traditional reflecting telescope configuration. Since the mid 20th century, a majority of large professional research telescopes have been Ritchey–Chrétien configurations; some well-known examples are the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck telescopes and the ESO Very Large Telescope. The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope was invented in the early 1910s by American astronomer

title: Extremely large telescope

text: the 1970s. These telescopes have a number of features in common, in particular the use of a segmented primary mirror (similar to the existing Keck telescopes), and the use of high-order adaptive optics systems. Although extremely large telescope designs are large, they can have smaller apertures than the aperture synthesis on many large optical interferometers. However, they may collect much more light, along with other advantages. The Keck Observatory (2 x 10 m) and the Very Large Telescope, of the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, measure 4 × 8.2 m and 4

title: Thirty Meter Telescope

text: National Academy of Sciences made a suggestion that a 30-meter telescope should be the focus of US astronomy interests and recommended it to be built within the decade. The University of California, along with Caltech began development of a 30-meter telescope that same year. The California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) began development along with the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) and the Very Large Optical Telescope (VLOT). These studies would eventually become the Thirty Meter Telescope. The TMT would have nine times the collecting area of the older Keck telescope using slightly smaller mirror segments in

title: Hobby–Eberly Telescope

text: 29, 2015, the usable optical aperature was increased to 10m. The mirror itself is composed of 91 hexagonal segments, a segmented mirror design like the Keck telescopes. Updates to the telescope have increased its field of view from 4 arcminutes to 22 arcminutes) (a full moon is 30 arcminutes for comparison). The telescope mirrors are aligned within a fraction of a wavelength of visible light by actuators under each segment. The tower next to the telescope, called the Center of Curvature Alignment Sensor Tower (CCAS), is used to calibrate the mirror segments. One of the advantages of this telescope design

title: Overwhelmingly Large Telescope

text: alignment of the segments (a technique called cophasing). Experience gained in existing segmented mirrors (for example, the Keck telescope) suggests that the mirror proposed for the OWL is feasible. However, the projected cost (of around €1.5 billion) was considered too high, so the ESO is now building the smaller European Extremely Large Telescope around 39 m in diameter. It has been estimated that a telescope with a diameter of 80 meters would be able to spectroscopically analyse Earth-size planets around the forty nearest sun-like stars. As such, this telescope could help in the exploration of exoplanets and extraterrestrial life (because

title: Optical telescope

text: mirror), and even external to the telescope all together (such as the Nasmyth and coudé focus). A new era of telescope making was inaugurated by the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT), with a mirror composed of six segments synthesizing a mirror of 4.5 meters diameter. This has now been replaced by a single 6.5 m mirror. Its example was followed by the Keck telescopes with 10 m segmented mirrors. The largest current ground-based telescopes have a primary mirror of between 6 and 11 meters in diameter. In this generation of telescopes, the mirror is usually very thin, and is kept in

title: Bobby Keck

text: ten. Starting at the age of 21, Bobby was a rugged veteran of 29 years of age when he retired from NASCAR. Bobby Keck heavily favored dirt tracks where a 14th-place finish was typical. Meanwhile, his Achilles heel was at intermediate tracks where a finish of 23rd place was not unusual. Being a proud Ford driver, Bobby's career was forever intertwined with a Ford vehicle of some kind. Keck was married to Mary Ella Watkins Keck and was the son of Mr. James Edgar Zeck and Mrs. Ella Mae Zachary Keck. He also had children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Bobby Keck

title: Donald Keck

text: Donald Keck Donald B. Keck (born January 2, 1941) is an American research physicist and engineer most noted for his involvement in developing low-loss optical fiber. Keck grew up in Lansing, Michigan and attended Michigan State University, after which he joined Corning Incorporated’s research department. As a senior research scientist for Corning, Keck, along with Robert D. Maurer and Peter C. Schultz, designed the first optical fiber with optical losses low enough for wide use in telecommunications. Keck spent his professional career at Corning, where he eventually held the position of Vice President and Technology Director of Optical Physics, during

title: History of the telescope

text: a new generation of giant telescopes appear using active optics, beginning with the construction of the first of the two Keck telescopes in 1993. Other giant telescopes built since then include: the two Gemini telescopes, the four separate telescopes of the Very Large Telescope, and the Large Binocular Telescope. Adaptive optics uses a similar principle, but applying corrections several hundred times per second to compensate the effects of rapidly changing optical distortion due to the motion of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. Adaptive optics works by measuring the distortions in a wavefront and then compensating for them by rapid changes

title: Anthony Keck

text: Anthony Keck Anthony Keck (1726–1797) was an 18th-century English architect with an extensive practice in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and South Wales. Keck was born at Randwick, Gloucestershire in 1726 He designed in the "austere Neoclassical style of the late eighteenth century – a provincial follower of Robert Adam." He died at Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, the village where he had his workshop and studio for most of his life, on 4 October 1797 at the age of seventy. He died at Beech House in the village, the home he partly designed for himself, and is buried in St. George's Church. Keck

title: David Keck

text: David Keck David Keck is a Canadian author, and teacher, who has Masters Degrees in English Literature, History, and Education. He is best known for his novels featuring protagonist Durand Col. His works have received generally positive reviews from critics, yet have not reached the mainstream so far. David Keck was born in, and grew up in, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Whilst living in Winnipeg he attended the University of Winnipeg, where he got master's degrees in English Literature, History, and Education. He subsequently moved to the UK to get a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex.

title: Extremely Large Telescope

text: telescopes currently in use are the Keck Telescopes, the Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Southern African Large Telescope, which each use small hexagonal mirrors fitted together to make a composite mirror slightly over across. The ELT uses a similar design, as well as techniques to work around atmospheric distortion of incoming light, known as adaptive optics. A 40-metre-class mirror will allow the study of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. The ELT is the highest priority in the European planning activities for research infrastructures, such as the Astronet Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmap and the ESFRI Roadmap. The telescope underwent a

title: James C. Keck

text: physics: Keck carried out pioneering research in photo-nuclear reactions and in spectral radiation from high-temperature shock-heated air. In 1952, after serving as a research associate at Cornell University, Keck left for the California Institute of Technology, where he served as a research fellow until 1955. That year, he joined the Avco Everett Research Laboratory, where he researched the reentry of missiles and spacecraft into the atmosphere. At the time of his departure from AERL in 1965, he served as its deputy director. In 1965, Keck joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he began researching the problem

title: James Webb Space Telescope

text: the telescope is launched. Image plane wavefront sensing through phase retrieval will be used to position the mirror segments in the correct location using very precise micro-motors. Subsequent to this initial configuration they will only need occasional updates every few days to retain optimal focus. This is unlike terrestrial telescopes like the Keck which continually adjust their mirror segments using active optics to overcome the effects of gravitational and wind loading, and is made possible because of the lack of environmental disturbances of a telescope in space. JWST's optical design is a three-mirror anastigmat, which makes use of curved secondary

title: Rebecca J. Keck

text: Rebecca J. Keck Dr. Rebecca J. Keck (1838–1904), was a 19th-century woman physician and patent medicine entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest independent businesswomen in the Midwest. The oldest daughter in a large Pennsylvania Dutch pioneer farming family, Rebecca Keck (née Ilgenfritz, sometimes spelled Ilginfritz) was born in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio in 1838. She moved with her parents to Fairfield, Iowa at the age of thirteen, where she may have completed schooling as far as the eighth grade. In 1857, she married John Conrad Keck, a merchant and mechanic newly arrived in Fairfield from Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Three of

title: W. M. Keck Observatory

text: segments as a single, contiguous mirror. In the case of the Keck Observatory telescopes each of the primary mirrors is composed of 36 hexagonal segments that work together as a single unit. Each segment is 1.8 meters wide, 7.5 centimeters thick, and weighs half a ton. The mirrors were made from Zerodur glass-ceramic by the German company Schott AG. On the telescope, each segment is kept stable by a system of active optics, which uses extremely rigid support structures in combination with three actuators under each segment. During observation, the computer-controlled system of sensors and actuators adjusts the position of

title: Southern African Large Telescope

text: of the massive mirror began. The last of the 91 smaller mirrored hexagon segments was put in place in May 2005. Korea and Japan have telescopes at the site and South Africa has at least five optical telescopes there. The University of Birmingham has a solar telescope to help monitor the Sun. SALT will probe quasars and enable scientists to view stars and galaxies a billion times too faint to be seen by the naked eye. Both SALT and HET have an unusual design for an optical telescope. Similar to the Keck Telescopes, the primary mirror is composed of an

title: Michael Keck

text: Michael Keck Michael Keck (born 8 February 1969) is a German badminton player. Keck clinched nine titles at the National Championships, won the first time in 1990. He was the bronze medallists at the 1996 European Championships, winning the mixed doubles event at the World Grand Prix tournament in 1997 Swedish Open. Keck has collected 65 caps for Germany and competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. His brother Markus Keck also a former German professional badminton player. "Mixed doubles" The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983. "Mixed doubles" "Men's doubles" "Mixed doubles"

title: Michael Keck

title: Philip Keck

text: judge for Fulton County, New York. Keck served in the New York Assembly in 1893, 1894, and 1895. He was a Republican. Philip Keck Philip Keck (October 26, 1848 – March 9, 1911) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Keck was born in Johnstown, New York. In 1860, Keck moved to Montgomery, Illinois to live with an uncle for two years and helped with farming; he then worked in a store in Bristol Station, Illinois as a clerk for one year. He return to Johnstown. Keck then went to Clinton Liberal Institute, Hamilton College, and Albany Law School. Keck

title: Philip Keck

text: Philip Keck Philip Keck (October 26, 1848 – March 9, 1911) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Keck was born in Johnstown, New York. In 1860, Keck moved to Montgomery, Illinois to live with an uncle for two years and helped with farming; he then worked in a store in Bristol Station, Illinois as a clerk for one year. He return to Johnstown. Keck then went to Clinton Liberal Institute, Hamilton College, and Albany Law School. Keck was admitted to the New York bar in 1876 and practiced law in Johnstown, New York. In 1884, Keck was elected county

title: Ray Keck

text: Keck, Sr. (born c. 1950), a Laredo banker. A younger brother, James Randall Keck (1956-1978), died at the age of twenty-one. On March 25, 1977, Keck married the former Patricia González Cigarroa (born c. 1954), an educator with the Laredo Independent School District and one of ten children of a prominent Laredo physician, Joaquin González Cigarroa, and his wife, the former Barbara Flores. There are two living Keck daughters, Teresa, named for her maternal great-grandmother, and Joyce, named for her paternal grandmother. A third daughter, Lacey Cigarroa Keck, a kindergarten teacher named for her paternal great-grandmother, is deceased. In 2004,

title: Aries Keck

text: in Radio and Television. She is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio (NPR) and the public radio program "Marketplace". Keck is the author of the 2004 non-fiction book "Einstein A to Z" with co-author Karen C. Fox. She graduated from Lehigh University in 1992 and lives in Maryland. Aries Keck Aries Keck is social media team lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md, the first-ever time NASA Goddard had someone in that position full-time. Her previous position at NASA Goddard was as a science writer for Earth science missions. Previous to being hired at NASA, Keck

title: Donald Keck

text: involved in local philanthropy in Corning, holding board membership for the American Red Cross, the Community Foundation, and the Science Center. In addition to still consulting for Infotonics, Keck remains active in the science community, serving on the oversight board for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the IPO Education Foundation Board of Directors, as well as holding the position of Vice-Chair of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Board of Directors. Furthermore, Keck is a benefactor of his alma mater, Michigan State University, where he also currently sits on the Advisory Board for the university’s College of Natural

title: Ray Keck

text: Ray Keck Ray Marvin Keck, III (born 1947) is the former president of Texas A&M University - Commerce. Prior to this position he was fifth president of Texas A&M International University, a four-year institution with certain graduate programs as well in Laredo, Texas, USA, a post to which he was initially appointed effective September 1, 2001. He is also a distinguished organist. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Keck was reared in Cotulla in La Salle County between Laredo and San Antonio. His father, Ray Keck, Jr. (1923-1997), was a veteran of the 1944 D-Day invasion of World War II and

title: William Myron Keck

text: commercial deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, where he set consecutive records for the deepest-drilled well. Running his company like a "one-man machine," he kept control of the company's stock after it went public. The company also became the largest independent oil producer in the United States. According to author Kevin Krajick, Keck also "practically ran the oil-rich nation of Venezuela." Keck was an active stalwart of the oil lobby politically, in part through his attorney Harold Morton and lobbyist Monroe Butler. Upon his death in 1964, his son William M. Keck Jr. became Superior's chief executive officer, followed by

title: Rebecca J. Keck

text: week of May 17, 1905. While extremely unpopular with members of the medical establishment in Iowa and Illinois, Rebecca Keck enjoyed glowing front page editorial endorsements from newspapers in the cities where she practiced. Some newspapers ran her illustrated, full-column ads on the front page under the heading, "Mrs. Dr. Keck's Column." The "Decatur Review" declared on November 15, 1883, "We have a marked example among us of success in medicine, in the person of Mrs. Dr. Keck, well-known in the West," while the "Bloomington Pantagraph" declared on August 30, 1883 that Mrs. Dr. Keck "absorbs considerable public attention and

title: David D. Keck

text: David D. Keck David Daniels Keck (October 24, 1903 – March 10, 1995) was an American botanist who was notable for his work on angiosperm taxonomy and genetics. Keck was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed undergraduate studies at Pomona College in 1925 and was awarded a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California in 1930. From 1925 to 1950 he was based at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, at Stanford University, where he worked on plant species concepts with Jens Clausen and William Hiesey. In 1949, the three of them were co-recipients of the Mary Soper Pope Memorial

title: Charles Keck

text: 1913 Keck designed a memorial plaque that was cast from metal that had been salvaged from the after it was raised in Havana harbor the previous year. Over a thousand of the plaques were cast and they are spread unevenly all over the United States. In 1931, Keck completed the Great Seals of the Commonwealth of Virginia which had been commissioned by the Commonwealth. The obverse of the seal is still used to this day and appears on the state flag. Charles Keck Charles Keck (September 9, 1875 – April 23, 1951) was an American sculptor from New York City,

title: Aries Keck

text: Aries Keck Aries Keck is social media team lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md, the first-ever time NASA Goddard had someone in that position full-time. Her previous position at NASA Goddard was as a science writer for Earth science missions. Previous to being hired at NASA, Keck was the producer and director of Earthbeat Radio, an hour-long broadcast in America dedicated to global warming. From 2001 – 2006 Keck was a reporter for WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, for which she won a number of national Associated Press awards as well as a Gracie Award from American Women

title: Jeremiah Keck

text: 150th and 151st New York State Legislatures. He died on July 31, 1930, in Johnstown, New York; and was buried at the Johnstown Cemetery there. Assemblyman Philip Keck (born 1848) was his brother. Jeremiah Keck Jeremiah Keck (November 9, 1845 – July 31, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was born on November 9, 1845, in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York, the son of Isaac Keck (born 1814) and Eliza Ann (Burns) Keck (1818–1857). He attended the public schools and worked on the family farm. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the 77th

title: Howard Keck

text: oil producing company in North America. In March 1984, Superior Oil was sold to Mobil Corporation (now part of ExxonMobil) for $5.7 billion. He was also head of the W. M. Keck Foundation set up by his father. The philanthropic foundation has provided substantial funding for numerous science and technology institutions and projects including the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno, Howard Keck Hall (Chemistry Building) at Rice University,

title: Donald Keck

text: different glass compositions and methods of heating the glass. In August 1970, Keck took measurements of the newest batch of fibers he had heat-treated. When Keck noticed the light passed through the 65 foot fiber seemingly without any loss, he exclaimed "Good grief, what do I have here?" Keck took more measurements of the fiber, and discovered it had an attenuation of 16 db/km, exceeding the goal of 20 db/km. Upon this discovery, Keck wrote in his laboratory notebook, "Attenuation equals 16 db it says. Eureka," followed by an exclamatory "Whoopee!". Keck and his team had invented the first low-loss

title: Keck asymmetric allylation

text: Keck asymmetric allylation In organic chemistry, the Keck asymmetric allylation is a chemical reaction that involves the nucleophilic addition of an allyl group to an aldehyde. The catalyst is a chiral complex that contains titanium as a Lewis acid. The chirality of the catalyst induces a stereoselective addition, so the secondary alcohol of the product has a predictable absolute stereochemistry based on the choice of catalyst. This name reaction is named for Gary Keck. The Keck asymmetric allylation has many applications to the synthesis of natural products, including (−)-Gloeosporone, Epothilone A, the CD-Subunit of spongistatins, and the C10-C20 Subunit of

title: Kevin Keck

text: Kevin Keck Kevin David Keck (born June 20, 1973) is an American writer. His writing appears to be largely autobiographical, though in recent publications he has asserted that the character called "Kevin Keck" is in fact merely a fictional persona. He is best known for his collection of personal essays "Oedipus Wrecked" (Cleis Press, 2005), which chronicles his sexual coming-of-age in a humorous style that is often compared to David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs. His writing first gained popularity when Nerve.com published a series of essays that were later collected in "Oedipus Wrecked." Much of Keck's writing oscillates between absurdist

title: Anthony James Keck

text: Keck family in the church of St Mary and All Saints in Stoughton. Elizabeth Legh remarried after the death of Anthony James Keck to William Bathurst Pye-Bennet and inherited the Broad Hinton estate (from the new marriage) and Salthrop estate (from her mother Martha Legh (née Bennet)) as well as the estates belonging to Norborne Family of Bremhill, Wiltshire. The estates then passed to her surviving daughter Elizabeth Calley (née Keck). Anthony James Keck Anthony James Keck (c1740 – 1782) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1780. Keck was born in Stoughton,

title: William Myron Keck

text: William Myron Keck William Myron Keck (April 27, 1880 – August 20, 1964) was an American oil entrepreneur and philanthropist. Founder of Superior Oil Company, author Kevin Krajick has described Keck as "the world's greatest oil prospector, a man whose instincts about the location of petroleum were so uncanny, some believed him clairvoyant." Keck established the W. M. Keck Foundation. William Myron Keck was born on April 27, 1880. After his father left home to work in the oil fields, he landed a job selling sandwiches and candy on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to support his mother. In his

title: George Fred Keck

text: George Fred Keck George Frederick Keck (1895-1980) was an American modernist architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He was later assisted in his practice by his brother William Keck to form the firm of Keck & Keck. Keck was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, the eldest of five boys. He studied engineering for a year at the University of Wisconsin and then studied architecture engineering at the University of Illinois. Starting in the 1920s, he worked as a draftsman for several Chicago firms, including D. H. Burnham & Company and Schmidt, Garden and Martin. He started his own practice in 1926, and

title: Jean-Christophe Keck

text: of this important work won various prizes including the Prix Michel Garcin of the Académie du disque lyrique. The Opéra-Théâtre de Metz created his opéra-bouffe "Monsieur de Chimpanzé" on a libretto by Jules Verne in November 2005, conducted by Dominique Trottein. Although a work set to the libretto had been premiered at the Bouffes-Parisiens in 1858, the music had been lost, and Keck composed an entirely new score. Keck is also a producer and presenter for France Musique. Jean-Christophe Keck Jean-Christophe Keck is a French musicologist and conductor, born in Briançon, in 1964. He is particularly noted as a specialist

title: Ray Keck

text: United States. Under Keck, the campus upgraded the Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium, established the Senator Judith Zaffirini Student Success Center, and created the Texas Academy of International and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Studies. Ray Keck Ray Marvin Keck, III (born 1947) is the former president of Texas A&M University - Commerce. Prior to this position he was fifth president of Texas A&M International University, a four-year institution with certain graduate programs as well in Laredo, Texas, USA, a post to which he was initially appointed effective September 1, 2001. He is also a distinguished organist. Born in San

title: Ray Keck

text: we have a knack for helping our dreams come true." As president, Keck takes an active role in recruiting students to his institution. Because of Laredo's negative national image, Keck noted that some parents still call him to inquire if the city is sufficiently safe for their children to attend college. In the spring of 2012, TAMIU had an enrollment of 6,533. Under Keck, TAMIU is one of two Texas A&M University System institutions declared by "Money Magazine" as among "736 Schools that Provide the Best Value for Your Tuition Dollar." A degree from TAMIU costs on average $85,504, compared

title: David Keck

text: compared to Erikson, mainly because he likes to go against the grain. He says that he "flinch[es] at an elf who's a dab hand with a longbow. Conventions and clichés: it's all in the smiles and cringes." David Keck David Keck is a Canadian author, and teacher, who has Masters Degrees in English Literature, History, and Education. He is best known for his novels featuring protagonist Durand Col. His works have received generally positive reviews from critics, yet have not reached the mainstream so far. David Keck was born in, and grew up in, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Whilst living in

title: Kevin Keck

text: "Oedipus Wrecked". San Francisco: Cleis Press. 2008 "Are You There God? It's Me. Kevin." New York City: Bloomsbury USA. 2014 "Hard Evidence: The Collected Bawdy Writings". North Carolina: Mitki/Mitki Press. 2014 "B-Sides: Poems 1994 - 2014". North Carolina: Mitki/Mitki Press. Kevin Keck Kevin David Keck (born June 20, 1973) is an American writer. His writing appears to be largely autobiographical, though in recent publications he has asserted that the character called "Kevin Keck" is in fact merely a fictional persona. He is best known for his collection of personal essays "Oedipus Wrecked" (Cleis Press, 2005), which chronicles his sexual coming-of-age

title: Howard Keck

text: Howard Keck Howard Brighton Keck (September 20, 1913 – December 14, 1996) was an American businessman. He was also a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, and the owner of an auto racing team that twice won the Indianapolis 500. Born in Trinidad, California, he was the second of the six children of William Myron Keck, the founder of the Superior Oil Company of California. On his father's death in 1963, Howard Keck took the helm of the oil company. He made substantial investments in exploration for new resources and in the company's production systems that made it the largest independent

title: Howard Keck

text: Angeles, he died in 1996 at the age of eighty-three at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica. Howard Keck Howard Brighton Keck (September 20, 1913 – December 14, 1996) was an American businessman. He was also a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, and the owner of an auto racing team that twice won the Indianapolis 500. Born in Trinidad, California, he was the second of the six children of William Myron Keck, the founder of the Superior Oil Company of California. On his father's death in 1963, Howard Keck took the helm of the oil company. He

title: Jeremiah Keck

text: Jeremiah Keck Jeremiah Keck (November 9, 1845 – July 31, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was born on November 9, 1845, in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York, the son of Isaac Keck (born 1814) and Eliza Ann (Burns) Keck (1818–1857). He attended the public schools and worked on the family farm. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the 77th New York Volunteer Infantry on February 24, 1862; mustered in as a private on April 21; and was discharged for disability on December 26, 1862, at Baltimore, Maryland. After his discharge, he attended

title: Stan Keck

text: days earlier from Greene Country Memorial Hospital, to which he was admitted the previous month with high blood pressure. Stan Keck James Stanton Keck (September 11, 1897 – January 20, 1951) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at Princeton University as a tackle and guard, and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and in 1921. Keck served as the head football coach at Waynesburg University from 1947 to 1950, compiling a record of 17–15–3. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1959. Keck died

title: Bobby Keck

text: Bobby Keck Bobby Darrell Keck Sr. (born August 29, 1934 - died March 31, 2011) was a NASCAR Grand National Series driver who drove from 1956 to 1964. He qualified in every race in his career except for the 1963 Old Dominion 500. Keck managed to drive in professional stock car racing for . While starting in 20th place on average, he always managed to improve on his starts by finishing in 17th place on average. Keck would earn just more than $11,000 in his NASCAR career and acquire two finishes in the top-five and nineteen finishes in the top

title: Stan Keck

text: Stan Keck James Stanton Keck (September 11, 1897 – January 20, 1951) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at Princeton University as a tackle and guard, and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and in 1921. Keck served as the head football coach at Waynesburg University from 1947 to 1950, compiling a record of 17–15–3. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1959. Keck died on January 20, 1951 after suffering a stroke at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. He had transferred there five

title: Joseph Keck House

text: Joseph Keck House The Joseph Keck House, is a historic residence located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Joseph Keck was a native of Pennsylvania who was trained as a carpenter and eventually became a banker. He married Elizabeth Jackson in 1844. Her family owned the property the house was built on. The Kecks lived in a small house that had been built here previously. Once he received the title to the land in 1855, Keck had this house built sometime in the mid to late 1850s. The two-story

title: Donald Keck

text: In 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded Keck, along with his fellow Corning researchers Maurer and Schultz, the nation’s highest honor for innovators, the National Medal of Technology. Their award citation read: "Their invention has enabled the telecommunications revolution, rapidly transformed our society, the way we work, learn and live – and our expectations for the future. It is the basis for one of the largest, most dynamic industries in the world today." Keck acquired 36 U.S. patents and authored more than 150 papers in the areas of optical fibers and fiber components. Selected patents are listed below: Donald Keck

title: Charles Keck

text: Charles Keck Charles Keck (September 9, 1875 – April 23, 1951) was an American sculptor from New York City, New York. Keck studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York with Philip Martiny, and was an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens from 1893 to 1898. He also attended the American Academy in Rome. In 1921 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1928. He is best known for his monuments and architectural sculpture. His interment was located at Fishkill Rural cemetery. In

title: Donald Keck

text: Director of Research. Immediately after his retirement, Keck helped establish the Infotonics Technology Center in Canandaigua (town), New York, a collaborative organization between private industry and government focused on photonics and nanotechnology innovation. Due to his expertise in both photonics and research management, he was elected the first Chief Technology Officer of Infotonics, a position he held briefly. Keck and his wife Ruth currently reside in Big Flats, New York, outside of Corning. He has two adult children, both of whom are also involved in technological fields: Lynne Vaia, a civil engineer, and Brian Keck, a software expert. He is

title: Tinker Keck

text: Tinker Keck Tinker "Ty" Keck (born August 10, 1976 in Colby, Kansas) is a Hollywood fitness trainer, former NFL defensive back for the New York Giants and XFL's Los Angeles Xtreme and former actor. Keck attended Colby High School in Colby Kansas his Freshman year, and Goodland High School in Goodland, Kansas his Sophomore, Junior and Senior years and was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, and track&field. In football, as a senior, he led his team to a Conference Title and was an All-League selection. In track & field, he was a two-time State Champion in the

title: W. M. Keck Foundation

text: 1996. The Foundation provides grants in five broad areas: science and engineering research, undergraduate science and engineering, medical research, liberal arts, in Southern California. Some of the more notable projects that have received funding from the Keck Foundation include: The Keck Foundation has been a long-time supporter of public television in Southern California, including underwriting the broadcast of Sesame Street on KCET since the 1970s. The foundation has a maximum grant of $5 million, though funding is typically $2 million or less. The W. M. Keck foundation has these requirements for funding: W. M. Keck Foundation The W. M. Keck

title: W. M. Keck Foundation

text: W. M. Keck Foundation The W. M. Keck Foundation is an American charitable foundation supporting scientific, engineering, and medical research in the United States. It was founded in 1954 by William Myron Keck, founder and president of Superior Oil Company (now part of ExxonMobil). The Foundation's trust fund currently has assets in excess of $USD1 billion. From its founding until his death in 1964, the Foundation was led by William Myron Keck. From 1964 to 1995, it was led by W. M. Keck's son, Howard B. Keck. Robert Addison Day, W. M. Keck's grandson has been chairman and president since

title: William Myron Keck

text: leadership from his second son Howard. He served as chairman of Superior. At one point, his fortune was estimated at $160 million, and at the time of his death, he and his family owned 51 per cent of Superior's shares. He had several children: Willametta Keck, Howard Keck, and William M. Keck Jr. In 1956, Keck purchased the historic Owlwood Los Angeles estate, installing a "24 carat gold bathroom sink feature shaped like an oil rig." Keck died in 1964. Most of his estate was left to his three surviving children, and he also left five beneficiary trusts for USC,

title: Anthony Keck

text: is credited with designing some fifty country houses in the South-West of England and South Wales. His works include: Keck's work was not confined to country houses, including churches, such as Old St. Martin's, Worcestershire and St. Peter and St. Paul's, Upton-Upon-Severn, including its famed lantern and cupola; public buildings, such as the Worcester Royal Infirmary and contributions to the Stroudwater canal. Anthony Keck Anthony Keck (1726–1797) was an 18th-century English architect with an extensive practice in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and South Wales. Keck was born at Randwick, Gloucestershire in 1726 He designed in the "austere Neoclassical style of the

title: George Fred Keck

text: Bauhaus School (now IIT Institute of Design). He was the head of architecture there until 1942 and appointed Ralph Rapson as his successor. Rapson also worked in Keck's office during this period, as did fellow New Bauhaus School professor Robert Bruce Tague. + The Wisconsin State Historical Society adding the Keck visual archive with photos. See their Visual Materials Collection, type Keck into search box next to Go button. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1135 George Fred Keck George Frederick Keck (1895-1980) was an American modernist architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He was later assisted in his practice by his brother William Keck to form

title: Thirty Meter Telescope

text: would enable astronomers to conduct research which is infeasible with current instruments. The TMT is designed for near-ultraviolet to mid-infrared (0.31 to 28 μm wavelengths) observations, featuring adaptive optics to assist in correcting image blur. The TMT will be at the highest altitude of all the proposed ELTs. The telescope has government-level support from several nations. In 2000, astronomers began considering the potential of telescopes larger than 20 meters in diameter. Two technologies were considered; segmented mirrors like that of the Keck Observatory and the use of a group of 8-meter mirrors mounted to form a single unit. The US

title: Sandra Faber

text: UC Berkeley physicist Jerry Nelson designed the Keck telescope, but Faber helped to sell the idea of large optical telescopes all over the world. The Keck telescope is the second largest optical telescope in the world, with a 10-meter primary mirror of a novel type that consists of 36 hexagonal segments. Sandra Faber co-chaired the Science Steering Committee, which oversaw the first-light instrument for Keck I. She also continued to insist on high optical quality for the primary mirror of the Keck I, and went on to work on the Keck II as well. During the later 1980s, Faber got

title: Jean-Christophe Keck

text: Jean-Christophe Keck Jean-Christophe Keck is a French musicologist and conductor, born in Briançon, in 1964. He is particularly noted as a specialist in the works of Jacques Offenbach, and is the director of the complete critical edition in progress, named after both, Offenbach Edition Keck (OEK). As a child he played tuba in the Briançon town band and after early studies at the école de musique de Briançon he attended for two years the Conservatoire de Marseille before entering the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. There he followed courses in conducting with Jean-Sébastien Bérault, musicology and composition with

title: Joseph Keck House

text: brick house is a well preserved, example of French mansard residential architecture. Other architectural styles represented in the house include the Gothic balustrade and vergeboard, the Greek Revival acroterion and finial, and the Italianate porch arcade. Joseph Keck House The Joseph Keck House, is a historic residence located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Joseph Keck was a native of Pennsylvania who was trained as a carpenter and eventually became a banker. He married Elizabeth Jackson in 1844. Her family owned the property the house was built on. The

title: Huey Long (Keck)

text: for the masses ….. marked him for death.” Long, a popular populist nicknamed “The Kingfish” was first Governor and then Senator from Louisiana and was assassinated in Baton Rouge on September 10, 1935 A very similar statue, without the raiser right arm, of Long by Keck was unveiled in 1940 on the grounds of the Louisiana State Capitol. Huey Long (Keck) Huey Long is a 1941 bronze sculpture of Huey Long by Charles Keck, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the

title: Keck Graduate Institute

text: Keck Graduate Institute Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) is a private graduate school in Claremont, California. Founded by Henry Riggs in 1997, it is the seventh and newest member of the Claremont Consortium. Henry Riggs, then president of Harvey Mudd College, established the institute in 1997 to address what he perceived as a lack of scientists trained to convert new scientific discoveries into practical uses. He also became the institute's first president, serving until 2003. The decision to establish Keck Graduate Institute as a seventh Claremont College met with some opposition, particularly from faculty of the other Claremont Colleges who objected

title: Keck and Mithouard

text: and affects them in the same way in law and in fact, it is lawful if it is merely a selling arrangement. This was the case for the French anti-dumping rules. The judgment has been subject to a number of criticism in the academic literature. In response to this, the Court has meanwhile diminished the importance of the Keck-judgment, giving way to a refined 3-tiers-test. Keck and Mithouard Reference for a Preliminary Ruling in the Criminal Proceedings against Bernard Keck and Daniel Mithouard (1993) C-267/91 is an EU law case, concerning the conflict of law between a national legal system

title: BICEP and Keck Array

text: BICEP and Keck Array BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) and the Keck Array are a series of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. They aim to measure the polarization of the CMB; in particular, measuring the "B"-mode of the CMB. The experiments have had five generations of instrumentation, consisting of BICEP1, BICEP2, the Keck Array, BICEP3, and the BICEP array. The Keck Array started observations in 2012 and BICEP3 has been operational since May 2016, with the BICEP Array being installed in 2017/18. The purpose of the BICEP experiment is to measure the polarization of the CMB. Specifically, it

title: William Myron Keck

text: While other prospectors turned away from the property, Keck's "46 highly productive wells were considered one of California's most successful oil-drilling projects. By 1921, he had accumulated enough leases to start his own firm. In 1921, Keck founded the Superior Oil Company in Coalinga, California. The company focused on the exploration and production of oil and gas, and was involved with a number of new methods under Keck. Under Keck, in 1930 the company was the first to successfully use directional drilling in California. Author Kevin Krajick has described Keck as "the world's greatest oil prospector, a man whose instincts

title: James C. Keck

text: James C. Keck James Collyer Keck (June 11, 1924 – August 9, 2010) was an American physicist and engineer recognized for his work on the Manhattan Project and for developing new methods for combustion engine modeling and high temperature flows. Keck was the Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (elected in 2002 "for developing innovative, widely used new concepts for modeling coupled chemical and physical phenomena in engine combustion and high temperature flows"). James C. Keck graduated from Carmel High School in Carmel, New York, in 1942 and

title: Anthony James Keck

text: with numerous members of his family and descendants including his son, George Anthony Legh Keck (who was also MP for Leicestershire). His grandfather was Sir Anthony Keck. His father was also Anthony Keck of Lincoln's Inn and his mother was Anne Busby of Beaumont, daughter of William Busby and Catherine Beaumont his wife. His father was a sergeant-at-law, who worked with Thomas Vernon. Anthony James Keck, married Elizabeth Legh (the second daughter of Peter Legh of Lyme and Martha Bennet of Salthrop House), and by her had six children as follows: There are marble plaques in remembrance for all the

title: Ray Keck

text: to $84,732 for Texas A&M University in College Station. By contrast, Rice University in Houston costs $157,824. In 2012, Keck was named "Mr. South Texas" as part of the annual Washington's Birthday Celebration in Laredo. In 2013, along with Laredo Community College President Juan L. Maldonado, Keck was a recipient of the "Imagine Award" from the Imaginarium of South Texas, a children's museum and informal science center located at Mall del Norte in Laredo. On June 1, 2016, Keck left TAMIU at the request of John Sharp, the chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, to become the interim president

title: Donald Keck

text: or OV process, for making fiber, which would ultimately become the leading manufacturing method. By 1979, Corning was mass-producing the refined optical fiber invented by Keck in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was elected Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Lightwave Technology in 1989, a position he held until 1994. After beginning as a senior research scientist in 1968, almost 30 years later, in April 1997, Corning appointed Keck the Division Vice President of Core Technology, Optics and Photonics – Science and Technology. Keck retired from Corning in 2002. At the time of his retirement he held the position of Vice President and

title: Herbert Keck

text: Herbert Keck Herbert Keck (28 January 1859 – 8 June 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sandhurst to grocer William Keck and Eliza Collcutt. He worked as a mason before purchasing land at Kennington, becoming a nurseryman and orchardist. He also owned land at Barham, Cohuna and Elmore. On 16 May 1882 he married Ann Pattinson, with whom he had eight children; he had two later marriages, one, on 29 June 1906, to Ada Pattinson, and one, on 2 December 1933, to Margaret June Ireland. He served on Strathfieldsaye Shire Council from 1898 to 1937 and was

title: George Anthony Legh Keck

text: Collection. A large mural painted on the wall of the drawing room at Bank Hall, subject unknown was lost when the roof of the west wing collapsed in the 1980s. There is a collection of Colonel Legh-Keck's accoutrements held by the Leicestershire Yeomanry Association. George Anthony Legh Keck Colonel George Anthony Legh-Keck (1774–1860) was a British MP in the Georgian era who owned landed estates in Leicestershire and Lancashire. Legh-Keck was born at Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire, the only surviving son of Anthony James Keck, MP for Newton, and Elizabeth ("née" Legh), second daughter and co-heiress of Peter Legh, MP, of

title: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

text: view is then limited by off-axis coma. Such a parabolic primary, with either a prime or Cassegrain focus, was the most common optical design up through the Hale telescope in 1949. After that, telescopes used mostly the Ritchey–Chrétien design, which uses two hyperbolic mirrors to remove both spherical aberration and coma, leaving only astigmatism, giving a wider useful field of view. Most large telescopes since the Hale use this design—the Hubble and Keck telescopes are Ritchey–Chrétien, for example. LSST will use a three-mirror anastigmat to cancel astigmatism: three non-spherical mirrors. The result is sharp images over a very wide field

title: Anthony Keck (Woodstock MP)

text: in 1767 when his horse won a race. He had married in 1736 Lady Susan, the daughter of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and had 2 daughters: Anthony Keck (Woodstock MP) Anthony Keck (1708 – 29 May 1767) was an English politician. He was born the second son of John Tracy of Stanway House, Gloucestershire. He succeeded to the Keck estates at Great Tew in Oxfordshire of his great-uncle Francis Keck in 1729, adopting the name of Keck according to a condition of the bequest. From 1744 he lived at Richmond House in Twickenham. A protégé of the Duke

title: Anthony Keck (Woodstock MP)

text: Anthony Keck (Woodstock MP) Anthony Keck (1708 – 29 May 1767) was an English politician. He was born the second son of John Tracy of Stanway House, Gloucestershire. He succeeded to the Keck estates at Great Tew in Oxfordshire of his great-uncle Francis Keck in 1729, adopting the name of Keck according to a condition of the bequest. From 1744 he lived at Richmond House in Twickenham. A protégé of the Duke of Marlborough, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock from 1753 to 1767. A keen participant in horse racing, he died of apoplexy at Epsom races

title: Keck and Mithouard

text: Keck and Mithouard Reference for a Preliminary Ruling in the Criminal Proceedings against Bernard Keck and Daniel Mithouard (1993) C-267/91 is an EU law case, concerning the conflict of law between a national legal system and European Union law. The Court found that "selling arrangements" did not constitute a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction on trade between Member States of the European Community, as it was then. Keck and Mithouard were prosecuted in France under anti-dumping retail laws for selling Picon liqueur at below cost price. The Court distinguished the case from its earlier jurisprudence on the

title: Anthony James Keck

text: Anthony James Keck Anthony James Keck (c1740 – 1782) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1780. Keck was born in Stoughton, Leicestershire, and educated at Eton, St John's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester from 1755 to 1756, also for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1768 to 1780. He lived at Stoughton Grange until he moved to Lancashire in 1768 and died aged 42 years, on 28 February 1782. He is buried at St Mary and All Saints Church in Stoughton. along

title: Herbert Keck

text: president five times (1903–04, 1912–13, 1918–19, 1927–28, 1936–37). In 1921 he won a by-election for Bendigo Province in the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Nationalist Party. He served in the Council until his death in Bendigo in 1937. Herbert Keck Herbert Keck (28 January 1859 – 8 June 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sandhurst to grocer William Keck and Eliza Collcutt. He worked as a mason before purchasing land at Kennington, becoming a nurseryman and orchardist. He also owned land at Barham, Cohuna and Elmore. On 16 May 1882 he married Ann Pattinson, with whom he

title: George Anthony Legh Keck

text: George Anthony Legh Keck Colonel George Anthony Legh-Keck (1774–1860) was a British MP in the Georgian era who owned landed estates in Leicestershire and Lancashire. Legh-Keck was born at Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire, the only surviving son of Anthony James Keck, MP for Newton, and Elizabeth ("née" Legh), second daughter and co-heiress of Peter Legh, MP, of Lyme Hall, Cheshire. His wife, Elizabeth Atherton, inherited Bank Hall in Bretherton, Lancashire, which he renovated with help from the architect George Webster in 1832-33. Legh-Keck was returned to parliament five times as MP for Leicestershire between 1797 and 1831. Commissioned as an officer

title: Keck Institute for Space Studies

text: Keck Institute for Space Studies The Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) is a joint institute of the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory established in January 2008 with a $24 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation. It is a privately funded think tank focused on space mission concepts and technology. The "2011-2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Reports" (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), have listed KISS in the "Top Thirty Science and Technology Think Tanks". The Founding Director of the Institute is Professor Tom Prince (2008–present). Keck Institute for