William Myron Keck (27 April 1880 – 20 Agustus 1964) adalah seorang pengusaha dan filantropis Amerika. Ia dikenal sebagai pendiri Superior Oil Company.[1] Penulis Kevin Krajick menggambarkan Keck sebagai "pencari minyak terbesar di dunia, seorang laki-laki yang instingnya tentang lokasi minyak bumi begitu luar biasa, sehingga beberapa orang mempercayainya sebagai orang yang memiliki kemampuan melihat masa depan."[2] Keck mendirikan Yayasan W. M. Keck.[1]
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- ^ a b "Visionary Philanthropy: A Home Run!". W. M. Keck Observatory. Diakses tanggal 28 April 2015.
- ^ "Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North America Arctic", Kevin Krajick, Open Road Media, 2 Februari 2016. Quote: "This was Howard Keck. Keck was not just any Houston oil billionaire; his father had been William Keck, the world's greatest oil prospector, a man whose instincts about the location of petroleum were so uncanny, some believed him clairvoyant. Starting as a penniless roustabout, he rose in the 1920s to found the Superior Oil Company. He pioneered deep offshore drilling, was first to find commercial deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, and practically ran the oil-rich nation of Venezuela. Even in his later years, when a drilling rig brought up a slimy core, old man Keck sniffed and tasted the rock to gauge the prospect."
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