--- title: John Forbes Nash Jr.: 'A Beautiful Mind' Subject Killed in Taxi Crash description: John Forbes Nash Jr., the subject of Oscar-winning film 'A Beautiful Mind,' was died Saturday in a taxi crash canonical: https://time.com/3895260/john-nash-dead-a-beautiful-mind/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-24T14:52:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T08:24:39.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'A Beautiful Mind' Mathematician Killed in New Jersey Taxi Crash og:description: John Nash and his wife died Saturday. og:url: https://time.com/3895260/john-nash-dead-a-beautiful-mind/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf138e2a6ed8a0d5d/6988518155a85903c6a8c2b2/john-nash-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: A file picture dated February 14, 2007 of Noble Laureate John Nash speaking on 'Global Games and Globalization' during a function in New Delhi. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'A Beautiful Mind' Mathematician Killed in New Jersey Taxi Crash twitter:description: John Nash and his wife died Saturday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf138e2a6ed8a0d5d/6988518155a85903c6a8c2b2/john-nash-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _A Beautiful Mind_ Mathematician Killed in New Jersey Taxi Crash  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:24 AM CUTPublished: May 24, 2015 2:52 PM CUT  A file picture dated February 14, 2007 of Noble Laureate John Nash speaking on 'Global Games and Globalization' during a function in New Delhi. A file picture dated February 14, 2007 of Noble Laureate John Nash speaking on 'Global Games and Globalization' during a function in New Delhi.Money Sharma—EPA  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:24 AM CUTPublished: May 24, 2015 2:52 PM CUT John Forbes Nash Jr., the subject of the 2001 Oscar-winning film _A Beautiful Mind_, and his wife were [killed Saturday in a taxi crash](http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed%5Fa%5Fbeautiful%5Fmind%5Fmathematician%5Fwife%5Fkilled%5Fin%5Ftaxi%5Fcrash%5Fpolice%5Fsay.html "undefined") on the New Jersey Turnpike, police said. Nash, 86, and Alicia Nash, 82, were in the taxi when the driver lost control and crashed into a guardrail, _NJ.com_ reported. No charges were expected to be filed in the crash, according to the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office. Nash, a longtime resident of Princeton Junction, N.J., won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on game theory. His genius in economics and mathematics, in addition to his struggle with schizophrenia, became the subject of his 1998 biography, which years later inspired the film _A Beautiful Mind_. The actor Russell Crowe, who played Nash in the movie, posted his condolences on Twitter, calling them “beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.” > [](https://twitter.com/russellcrowe/status/602468781911183360) Princeton University, where Nash worked as a mathematician, said in a statement the community was “stunned and saddened” by the news of the deaths of Nash and his wife. > [](https://twitter.com/Princeton/status/602494753188483072) \[[_NJ.com_](http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed%5Fa%5Fbeautiful%5Fmind%5Fmathematician%5Fwife%5Fkilled%5Fin%5Ftaxi%5Fcrash%5Fpolice%5Fsay.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3895260/john-nash-dead-a-beautiful-mind/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3895260/john-nash-dead-a-beautiful-mind/"},"headline":"A Beautiful Mind Mathematician Killed in New Jersey Taxi Crash","datePublished":"2015-05-24T14:52:51.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T08:24:39.000Z","description":"John Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, died Saturday","url":"https://time.com/3895260/john-nash-dead-a-beautiful-mind/","keywords":["New Jersey","movies","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf138e2a6ed8a0d5d/6988518155a85903c6a8c2b2/john-nash-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf138e2a6ed8a0d5d/6988518155a85903c6a8c2b2/john-nash-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A file picture dated February 14, 2007 of Noble Laureate John Nash speaking on 'Global Games and Globalization' during a function in New Delhi.","caption":"A file picture dated February 14, 2007 of Noble Laureate John Nash speaking on 'Global Games and Globalization' during a function in New Delhi.","creditText":"Money Sharma—EPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3895260/john-nash-dead-a-beautiful-mind/","name":"A Beautiful Mind Mathematician Killed in New Jersey Taxi Crash"}}]}] ```