He resided in a mansion later owned by Ted Field located at 1244 Moraga Drive in the gated community of Moraga Estates in Bel Air, California.
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Howard Brighton Keck (September 20, 1913 – December 14, 1996) was an American businessman, a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, and the owner of an auto racing team that twice won the Indianapolis 500.
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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.
On May 5, 1871, LT Cushing came into contact with an Apache element approximately fifteen miles northwest of today’s Fort Huachuca in an area known as Bear Spring in the Whetstone Mountains.
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.
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They have one son, Robert, a senior scientist at the Laboratory of Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester in New York and one daughter, Pat, a sculptor who currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
With taxonomist David D. Keck and physiologist William Hiesey, he formed the first interdisciplinary effort to combine genetics, ecology and systematics in order to understand the ecological genetics of the evolutionary process in California plants.
The W.M. Keck Earth Science and Metal Engineering Museum is located within the building.