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John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13th, in Bluefield, West Virginia.
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Diagnosed with depression.
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Graduated with a bachelor's & master's degree at age 19.
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Received his doctorate from Princeton with a thesis entitled non-cooperative games.
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Nash married his wife, Alicia.
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His wife became pregnant & they had two children.
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Spent several years at a psychiatric hospital because of his paranoid schizophrenia.
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Finally slowly started returning to his academic work.
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Received the John Von Neumann Theory Prize.
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Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic science for his work on game theory.
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Awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize.
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The movie A Beautiful Mind was produced, based on John Forbes Nash Jr. as a biography.
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Nash received the Abel Prize.
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John Forbes Nash Jr. & his wife died in a car crash while riding in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike near Monroe Township, New Jersey on May 23rd.
