Donald B. Keck (born 1941) is an American physicist who worked with Robert Maurer and Peter Schultz at Corning Laboratories to create the first successful optical fiber in 1970. Born in Lansing, Michigan, he received his bachelor degree in 1962, his master degree in 1964 and his doctorate in 1967, all from Michigan State University, and joined Corning as a research physicist in 1968. He rose to vice president and executive director of research before retiring in 2002. During the 1960s Keck, Maurer and Schultz found that sound could be sent as light along a fiber of silica glass, which started the fiber optic revolution. Keck and his colleagues received the National Medal of Technology in 2000.
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