Nash and wife Alicia killed in taxi crash on New Jersey Turnpike
Russell Crowe salutes ‘beautiful minds, beautiful hearts’
Tom McCarthy in New York
THE GUARDIAN - MAY 24, 2015
John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning mathematician whose life story inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, was killed with his wife Alicia in taxi cab crash in New Jersey on Saturday night, police said.
Nash, 86, was senior research mathematician at Princeton University
in New Jersey. He and Alicia, 82, were traveling on the New Jersey
Turnpike when their driver lost control,
NJ.com quoted state police sergeant Gregory Williams as saying. The cab
hit a guardrail and the couple were thrown from the vehicle.
The cab driver and a passenger in a second vehicle were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to reports.
John and Alicia Nash married in 1957 and divorced in 1963. They remarried in 2001.
Russell Crowe, who starred as Nash in director Ron Howard’s 2001 movie, which won four Academy Awards including best picture, tweeted his condolences on Sunday morning.
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