University of Texas
John Wayne Keto
April 29, 1946–

 

 

 

John Wayne Keto was born in Harrison, Ohio to John E. and Evelyn Camburn Keto, the second of two children, older sister, Martha. John's father was a radio engineer. John married Virginia Lee "Ginny" Haevers. They have a son John Eric and a daughter, Jennifer.

John attended Fairmont West High School in Kettering, Ohio where he was active in Orchestra, Science Club (President), Track, French Club and served as a lab assistant. He graduated in 1964. John next enrolled in the University of Michigan, graduating with highest honorts in 1968 with a BS in Engineering Science. He next pursued graduate work in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning his PhD in 1972. His dissertaion was entitled, "Dynamic Properties of Neutral Excitations Produced in Electron-bombarded Superfluid." His supervisor was Professor W. A. Fitzsimmons. Following graduation John worked at the RCA Sarnoff Research Laboratory in Princeton, NJ until 1972 when he became a Research Associata at Rice University. While there he served as an instructor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 1975 he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. At UT, John's many talents led to appointments to a number of UT research units: Electronics Research Center, Center Structural Studies, Texas Materials Institute, Center for Nano-Mole. Science and Technology, Center for Nano and Molecular Sciences, and Center for High-Intensity Laser Science. He was Visiting Professor with W. Demtroder, Physics Univ. of Kaiserlaütern, Germany, 1985 and Visiting Professor at Ecole Central de Lille, June, 2001.

John moved rapidly through the department faculy, becomeing Professor in 1988. Among his department service positions were Graduate Advisor, Chair Graduate Studies Committee and Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs.

John's honors include: Branstrom prize, Univ. of Michigan, 1965; Tau Beta Pi, Univ. of Michigan, 1967; Phi Kappa Phi, University of Michigan, 1968; N.S.F. Fellow, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1970-72; Sigma Xi, 1971; Who's-Who, South and Southwest, 1980; American Men of Science, 1985, Vis. Prof. and SFB fellow, U. of Kaiserlautern, Germany; Distinguished Visiting Scientist, NIMC, Tscuba, Japan, 1998; Fellow Am. Physics Society, 2008; Div. Atomic, Molecular and Optical. Physics, Citation "For studies of the energy transport phenomena in dense gases and clusters excited by resonant photon pulses."; Thornberry professorship for innovative teaching, 2001-2002, Who's-Who in America, 2005.

Some of John's professional activities include:

Patents:
M. F. Becker, J. R. Brock and J. W. Keto, "Process for the Production of Nanoparticles" U.S. Patent #5,585,020, Dec. 17, 1996;
"Method and system for producingcomposite nanoparticles and nanostructured films," US 7,527,824, May 5, 2009,
“Facilitated Olefin Transport in Metal Nanoparticle Filled Polymers,” pending,
“Production of bare nanoparicle-on-nanoparticle surfaces,” pending.
Consulting: Argonne National Laboratory, 1982; Aerojet Corporation, 1984; Western Research Corporation, 1984-87; Mission Research Corp.1988-90; Xitek,1992-94, Advanced Micro Devices, 1993-95, 2005-08, PACLP 2008-09.

Memberships:

American Physical Society 1974-present. Program Committee, Southwest Conference on Optics, 1984; AFOSR Expert Panel on Metastable Helium,1984; Program Committee, Texas Section Am. Phy. Soc.,1988; Co-chairman Tenth Intern'l Conf. on Spectral Lineshapes, 1990; Program Committee, Texas Section Am. Phy. Soc., 1994.

 

John W. Keto Photo Album

 

 

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