John (A Beautiful Mind) Nash and wife killed in NJ Turnpike crash
what awful news...he was brilliant with two sons still dependent upon him ...so very sad
Had dinner with him and his son in New York 5 years ago at a Princeton event. He was completely "gone" of course but it was still memorable for me due to my academic training.
How sad. My friends and I have such distinct memories of him from our too-long-ago undergraduate days, when he was not yet a Nobel winner, but just an older man who spent many hours roaming around campus, in academic buildings, computer labs and student centers, sometimes leaving cryptic equations on blackboards in his wake.
No one ever told us who he was (or why campus security seemingly never questioned his presence), so we were all amazed and thrilled for him when he won the Nobel and as he continued to reemerge from his mental issues.
I don't know if it is fitting or ironic that he died coming home from a trip to Norway to receive one of the world's top mathematics honors. But since he and his wife leave behind a son struggling with very similar issues, it is particularly sad.
The evidence suggests that they were riding on the NJ Turnpike unbuckled. Please, everyone, wear seat belts in taxis. I don't know if belts would have saved the Nashes, but I know or know of too many people who were killed or suffered life-changing injuries riding unbuckled in taxis or car service cars.
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They were passengers in a taxi that was hit by a car trying to avoid another car switching lanes.