# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-keck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:29:47.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-keck"
name: "Donald Keck"
slug: "donald-keck"
description: "Donald B. Keck 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."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.08695652173913
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump