Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father, after whom he is named, was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. His mother, Margaret, had been a school teacher prior to marriage. Nash's parents pursued opportunities to supplement their son's education with encyclopedias and even allowed him to take advanced mathematics courses at a local college while still in high school. Nash accepted a scholarship to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and graduated with a Master's Degree in only three years.[3]
Personal life
Per Nash's biography, from 1951 onwards, he had a liaison with a nurse, Eleanor Stier. She bore a child named John David Stier. Though Nash had thought of marrying her, he later decided against it and left them.
In 1951, Nash went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a C. L. E. Moore Instructor in the mathematics faculty. There, he met Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé (born January 1, 1933), a physics student from El Salvador, whom he married in February 1957. She admitted Nash to a mental hospital in 1959 for schizophrenia; their son, John Charles Martin Nash, was born soon afterward, but remained nameless for a year because his mother felt that her husband should have a say in the name.
Nash and de Lardé divorced in 1963, though after his final hospital discharge in 1970 Nash lived in de Lardé's house. In 1994, Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, following which he and de Lardé resumed their romantic relationship. They were remarried in 2001.
Schizophrenia
Nash began to show signs of extreme paranoia and his wife later described his behavior as erratic, as he began speaking of characters like Charles Herman and William Parcher who were putting him in danger. Nash seemed to believe that all men who wore red ties were part of a communist conspiracy against him. Nash mailed letters to embassies inWashington, D.C., declaring that they were establishing a government.[8][9]
He was admitted to the McLean Hospital, April–May 1959, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The clinical picture is dominated by relatively stable, often paranoid, fixed beliefs that are either false, over-imaginative or unrealistic, usually accompanied by experiences of seemingly real perception of something not actually present — particularly auditory and perceptional disturbances, a lack of motivation for life, and mild clinical depression.[10] Upon his release, Nash resigned from MIT, withdrew his pension, and went to Europe, unsuccessfully seeking political asylum in France and East Germany. He tried to renounce his U.S. citizenship. After a problematic stay in Paris and Geneva, he was arrested by the French police and deported back to the United States at the request of the U.S. government.
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I wonder what really went down with the whole hospitalization and medication and schizophrenia thing. I wonder because the US requested him back!? My questions are a lot about where those delusions came from? If he was so brilliant maybe someone would be using him for some secret government something. Who ever that person was definitely would not be the one everrr coming clean to any piece of the public let alone Hollywood. But if they were really just delusions, he was just unjustly conceited? haha. ohhh hollywood making everything look soo cute *EYE ROLL. He was was so paranoid specifically about the red scare and the Russians and all those Mcarthy era paranoias. It was 1954 so it makes sense but I wonder why how those delusions stuck with him somehow, where did they come from? It wasn't even that he was paranoid at first. He "imagined" being employed by a secret sect of the government. For all we know this movie was total propaganda and they paid him off. Maybe they didn't even have to pay him off. Because he won the nobel peace prize. That was his pay off. After the government abused him they decided to confuse him more. So now he has to smile and be nice for the lying hollywood lenses right? Plus they made him so much more dreamy than he really is in the depiction. He was paranoid about all guys with red ties (in real life)!? They totally didn't depict him the way he really was in the movie. And in the movie his wife stayed by his side. She almost sold him out then she came back up the stairs and we were like ohh yes she is a ride-or-die. But in real life, not that their love isn't amazing and real (cause they're back together to this day since 2001) but it was not such a "perfect love story" like it reallllllly seemed like. It really was to the point where it was unrealistic. As i watched i was like wow thats amazing.....and it wasn't even really like that... and she did have him committed and they got divorced and all that. They also neglected to mention that his wife, who's real name is Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé (She's Alisha in the movie...) is Latina, Lopez! *shaking my head...By the way, there is not one single non-white person in the whole movie. And if that was back in the 50's at Princeton and she was a student, thats definitely not irrelevant that she is a person of color. I mean granted she is very light but still. WOW. So much more to the story! The Angles reeeeek like propaganda. I bet he was way more abusive than they showed too. Like how did that baby stay the same age for two years? I bet that boy was around to see way more insanity than they allowed us to see. And he (John) was in jail! He seeked political freedom in Europe! hmmm! There was something real to his "delusions" at someee point! I'm convinced. They cut out soo much... <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------just some tid-bits & thoughts/rantings. Assignment on its way
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