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@ 2015-05-26  2:45 Linton, Fred
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From the NYT ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/science/john-nash-a-beautiful-mind-subject-and-nobel-winner-dies-at-86.html ):

> John Forbes Nash, Jr., ... born on June 13, 1928, ... was
> killed, along with his wife, in a car crash on Saturday in ...
> a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike in Monroe Township ... 
> driver lost control ... hit a guardrail and another car ... .

He had

> ...  shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 ... [and was now] returning home
> from ... a trip to Norway, where [he] had received the Abel Prize 
> from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

A few more weeks and he'd have reached the age of 87. RiP.

-- Fred

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