Obituary: Sidney J. Weinberg Jr., Philanthropist
October 6, 2010
Sidney J. Weinberg Jr., a senior director of Goldman Sachs who gave some $50-million to health, science, and education institutions, died Monday at his home in Massachusetts, The New York Times reports. He was 87.
Mr. Weinberg, whose father and brother led Goldman Sachs for much of the 20th century, joined the investment-banking firm as a general partner in 1965. Six years later, he started a foundation that has made grants to the Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard Business School, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and Princeton University, among other organizations.
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