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. The Foundation's net assets exceeded $1.3 billion at the end of 2019.
W. M. Keck Observatory at dawn, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Old pumpjack in the W. M. Keck Foundation Gallery, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The Keck Array at the South Pole observatory, Antarctica.
William Myron Keck was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as the 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