When the 96-year-old Ruth Gottesman's husband died in 2022, he left behind something that surprised even his wife: $1 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock.'He left me, unbeknownst to me, a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock,' Gottesman told The New York Times. Her husband's only instructions? 'Do whatever you think is right with it,' she told the outlet.
Ruth Gottesman, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at @EinsteinMed, has made a transformational gift to #MontefioreEinstein—the largest to any medical school in the country—that ensures no student has to pay tuition again. https://t.co/XOy9HZLbfD pic.twitter.com/1ijv02jHFkGottesman, a clinical professor emerita of pediatrics at Einstein, began her career at the college in 1968, according to the school's press release.