Not even the institution of higher education in the United States received such a donation.
He inherited an incredible fortune Ruth GottesmanThe 93-year-old widow did not keep the money, but helped others with it.
The woman's husband David Gottesman He died in 2022. The man was a serious businessman, involved in investments on Wall Street Warren Buffett next to.
He had such a huge fortune that even the widow could not believe at first how much she had inherited from him, which is not surprising, since he left her a portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway shares worth a billion dollars.
The man said something to his wife:
Do with it what you see fit
Gottesman shared.
At first, the 93-year-old did not know what to spend the money on, so she consulted with her children, and they finally came to the decision to donate the entire amount to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Gottesman previously taught here as a professor.
The New York Times according to The institution received the news with overwhelming joy, and this is not surprising, because the tuition fees for the academic year amount to 63 thousand dollars, or approximately 23 million forints.
The newspaper indicates that this is the largest donation ever made to an educational institution in the United States.
