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John Nash, ‘A Beautiful Mind’ Laureate, Dies in Crash
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John Nash, the Princeton University mathematician and Nobel laureate whose towering intellect and descent into paranoid schizophrenia formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning movie “A Beautiful Mind,” has died. He was 86.
Nash and his wife, Alicia, were killed when the taxi they were riding in crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike Saturday afternoon, ejecting the couple, New Jersey State Police Sergeant Gregory Williams said Sunday.