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'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash wife killed in crashJohn Nash the Nobel Prize winning mathematician whose life story inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind and his wife Alicia Nash were killed Saturday in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Fredreka Schouten USA TODAY 7 p.m. EDT May 24 2015UP NEXT03John Nash whose life was portrayed in the movie 'A Beautiful Mind ' was killed in a car crash on the New Jersey turnpike along with his wife Alicia. VPC
John Nash is seen in 1994(Photo AFP/Getty Images file)
John Nash the Nobel Prize winning mathematician whose life story inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind and his wife Alicia Nash were killed Saturday afternoon in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike New Jersey State Police said.
The Nashes were in a taxi traveling southbound in the left lane of the New Jersey Turnpike State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams told USA TODAY when the driver lost control while trying to pass another vehicle. The taxi crashed into the guardrail and then into another car in the right lane.
The Nashes were ejected from the taxi and were pronounced dead at the scene Williams said.The taxi driver was treated for non life threatening injuries.
Nash who shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 was 86 while Alicia Nash was 82. The couple lived in Princeton N.J. police said where John Nash was a senior research mathematician at Princeton University.
Princeton's president Christopher Eisgruber called the Nashes very special members of the university's community.
John's remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant groundbreaking work in game theory Eisgruber said in a statement released Sunday. The story of his life with Alicia moved millions of readers and moviegoers who marveled at their courage in the face of daunting challenges.
The 2001 film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe was based loosely on his life and long battle with schizophrenia. As depicted in the film Alicia Nash was his caregiver while he struggled with his mental illness.
In a tweet Sunday Crowe said Stunned ... my heart goes out to John Alicia family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds beautiful hearts.
Ron Howard who directed the Oscar winning film called John Nash brilliant and Alicia Nash remarkable in a tweet Sunday. It was an honor telling part of their story he said.
John Nash left and his wife Alicia arrive at the 74th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2002. (Photo File photo by Laura Rauch AP)
Nash was considered a pioneer in the field of game theory devising a tool that economists and others could apply to competitive situations from trade negotiations to legislative battles. In 1994 he shared the Nobel Prize with two others for a theory he advanced more than four decades earlier as a young doctoral student at Princeton.
But it was his life story chronicled first in a biography by Sylvia Nasar and in Howard's film that brought him fame. He spent decades battling incapacitating schizophrenia surviving with help from friends colleagues and his wife.
The two divorced in the early 1960s but Alicia Nash remained close to him and let him live in her home. She worked as a computer programmer to support him and their son according to a 1994 New York Times article by Nasar. The Nashes remarried in 2001.
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