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10 billionaires who are giving generously to the world

New Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a

#2 George Mitchell



Amount donated in 2013: $750 million

Net worth: $2 billion

Beneficiary: Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation in The Woodlands, Tex.

Background: George P. Mitchell leveraged a penchant for hard work and an appetite to reshape the global energy industry and made the wildcat oilman a billionaire. He is considered to be the father of fracking and doggedly pursued natural gas he and others knew were trapped in wide. He sold his company in 2002 to Devon Energy for $3.5 billion. He died last year at the age of 94, leaving $750 million to the foundation he established with his wife in 1978. Over the last 35 years, Mitchell gave away more than $400 million.

 

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