Arthur Goodhart Altschul (6 April 1920 – 17 March 2002) was a Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

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 Group partner and banking mogulwho was on the Board of Trustees of many museums and philanthropic organisations, including the Whitney Museum, the United Jewish Appeal

United Jewish Communities

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, the Overbrook Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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, and the International Foundation for Art Research. Altschul also served as Director and Chairman of the Board of General American Investors Company

General American Investors Company

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Barnard College

Barnard College

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 at its 1984 commencement ceremonies awarded Altschul its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

American broadcast journalist Serena Altschul

Serena Altschul

Serena Altschul is an American broadcast journalist, well known for her work at MTV News. She is the daughter of author Siri von Reis and Arthur Altschul, a former partner at Goldman Sachs.-Career:...

 is his daughter and American researcher Stephen Altschul

Stephen Altschul

For the former MTV news/current CBS news correspondent, see Serena Altschul.Stephen Frank Altschul is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are widely used in the field of bioinformatics . Most notably, Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence...

 his son in a marriage to Siri von Reis

Siri von Reis

Siri Sylvia Patricia von Reis is an American botanist, author and poet. She has worked as an investigator at the New York Botanical Garden and is the mother of reporter/correspondent Serena Altschul.-Bibliography:...

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