John and alicia nash funeral
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Funeral for John Nash and wife to be private; Alumni group plans memorial
PRINCETON — John and Alicia Nash, whose life story became public in the rulle "A Beautiful Mind," will have a private funeral.
Services for the couple will be for family and friends only and no details will be released to the public, according to a spokeswoman for the Mather-Hodge begravning Home in Princeton, which fryst vatten handling the arrangements.
John, 86, and Alicia, 82, were killed Saturday when a taxi they were riding in crashed into a guard rail near Interchange 8A on the New Jersey Turnpike. The couple was not wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the vehicle.
John Nash was a Princeton University mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 for his pioneering work in game theory.
John and Alicia Nash were portrayed bygd Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly in the 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind," which chronicled John's lifelong struggle with paranoid schizophrenia.
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'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash to be honored today
MONROE TOWNSHIP (WABC) -- There will be an event in honor of John Nash Wednesday afternoon.
The event was to celebrate Nash's winning the Abel Prize, but it will now include a viewing of the movie "A Beautiful Mind" at the Princeton Garden Theater, followed by a dinner.
The movie was inspired by Nash's life. The event will be for club members only. His funeral will be private, per the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home in Princeton.
The Nobel Prize-winning mathematician died in a taxi crash along with his wife in New Jersey over the weekend. John Forbes Nash Jr. was 86. According to the New Jersey State Police, Nash and his wife of nearly 60 years, Alicia, were in a crash Saturday at about 4:30 p.m. on the New Jersey Turnpike in Monroe Township.
The driver of the cab, a Ford Crown Victoria, lost control while passing a Chrysler which was in the center lane.
The cab crashed into the guard rail
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Two years after parents' death, son of 'A Beautiful Mind' John Nash' has one regret
WEST WINDSOR -- Two years ago, the world mourned John and Alicia Nash, the renowned mathematician immortalized by the Oscar-winning film,A Beautiful Mind, and his wife when they died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.
But the people closest to the couple understood the tragedy cut far deeper than the loss of the Nobel-prize winner and the woman whose devotion ensured Nash was treated for schizophrenia.
The Nashes left behind their son, John Charles Nash, who inherited both his father's genius and his mental illness. With his parents ripped from his life, friends and colleagues anxiously wondered: what will happen to "Johnny?"
A little more than two years later, John Nash continues to live in the modest two-story house facing the Princeton Junction train station parking lot in West Windsor, his home for 45 of his 58 years. The voices and visual hal