MONROE , N.J., May 25 (UPI) -- John Nash Jr., mathematician and subject of the book and film "A Beautiful Mind," was remembered by friends after his death Saturday for working to erase the stigma of mental illness.
Nash, 82, and his wife, Alicia, died after the taxi in which they were traveling struck a guardrail and then another car on the New Jersey Turnpike, in Monroe Township. They were ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, after returning home from the airport following a trip to Norway where Nash received the prestigious Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.