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| 1. | Robert, 1925–2006, U.S. film director, producer, and screenwriter. |
| 2. | Sidney, born 1939, U.S. biologist, born in Canada: shared Nobel prize for chemistry 1989. |
Alt·man  (ôlt'mən) American film director and screenwriter whose film credits include M*A*S*H (1970), for which he won an Academy Award, and The Player (1992). |
| Altman, Sidney Born 1939. Canadian-American biologist who shared a 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discoveries concerning the catalytic properties of RNA. |