John and alicia nash funeral
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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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Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)
Alicia Esther Nash (née Lardé Lopez-Harrison[a]; January 1, 1933 – May 23, 2015) was a Salvadoran-American physicist. The wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., she was a mental-health care advocate, who gave up her professional aspirations to support her husband and son, who were both diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Her life with Nash was chronicled in the 1998 book, A Beautiful Mind bygd Sylvia Nasar, as well as in the 2001 film of the same title directed bygd Ron Howard, in which she was portrayed by Jennifer Connelly.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit]Alicia Lardé Lopez-Harrison was born on January 1, 1933, in El Salvador, the daughter of Alicia Lopez-Harrison and Carlos Lardé, a doctor. The Lardé Lopez-Harrison family also included two boys, Carlos and Rolando Lardé. Both of her parents came from socially prominent, well-travelled families who spoke several languages. Her aunt was the poe
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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