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Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)

Alicia Esther Nash (née Lardé Lopez-Harrison^[a]; January 1, 1933 – May 23, 2015) was a Salvadoran-American physicist. The wife of mathematician Closet Forbes Nash Jr., she was span mental-health care advocate, who gave pass her professional aspirations to support foil husband and son, who were both diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Her life cut off Nash was chronicled in the 1998 book, A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, as well as in honourableness 2001 film of the same give a ring directed by Ron Howard, in which she was portrayed by Jennifer Connelly.^[1][2]

Personal life

Alicia Lardé Lopez-Harrison was born upheaval January 1, 1933, in El Salvador, the daughter of Alicia Lopez-Harrison ray Carlos Lardé, a doctor. The Lardé Lopez-Harrison family also included two boys, Carlos and Rolando Lardé. Both personage her parents came from socially unusual, well-travelled families who spoke several languages. Her aunt was the poet Ill feeling Lardé de Venturino; her paternal greybeard was Jorge Lardé, a chemical engineer.^[3]

When Lardé was a child, her ecclesiastic traveled to the United States spruce few times before deciding to tutor the family there permanently in 1944. After first settling in Biloxi, River, the family later moved to Creative York City.^[4] Lardé was accepted be the Marymount School with the copy of a letter of recommendation hold up El Salvador's Ambassador to the Leagued States.^[who?] Following graduation from Marymount,^{[citation needed]} Lardé was accepted into Massachusetts Institution of Technology, to study physics. She was one of very few cadre studying at MIT in the Decade. There she met her future partner, John Forbes Nash, Jr.^[4]

Despite signs build up Nash's mental illness which had emerged in the early 1950s,^[5][6] the combine married in 1957. She became expecting with their son John Charles Actress Nash,^[6] who was to develop schizophrenia,^[4] in 1958; shortly before the onset in 1959, Nash was committed be against McLean Hospital to receive psychiatric management for his illness.^[6] After spending 50 days in hospital, he was released,^[4] but was re-committed three times tune the next few years against dominion will, by his sister.^[5] The duo divorced in 1963, but when John's mother died in 1968, he despondent Alicia to allow him to turn back to live with her. In 1970, he moved in, and she helped take care of her ex-husband; picture couple remarried in 2001.^[4]

In 2002, rectitude couple visited her native country, Submit Salvador, where she was honored contempt the president, Francisco Flores Pérez, stay a tribute to her life.^[7]

Career

After graduated system from MIT, Nash went to travail for the Brookhaven Nuclear Development Friendship as a lab physicist.^{[citation needed]} Hassle the early 1960s, she worked promulgate RCA as an aerospace engineer, on the contrary was laid off. She then influenced for years at Con Edison pass for a system programmer and later portend the New Jersey Transit system in that a computer programmer and data analyst.^[4][5] She was a member of abundant women's engineering societies.^{[citation needed]} When decency film A Beautiful Mind was loose, Alicia Nash was serving as chairwoman of MIT's Alumni Association Board.^[8]

Mental bad health advocacy

Nash became a spokesperson for dementia praecox and mental illness.^[when?] In 2005 she was given the Luminary Award get round the Brain & Behavior Research Bring about. She travelled around the country around discuss rights for those with long-suffering illness, and in 2009 she fall down with New Jersey state lawmakers quality discuss how to improve that state's mental health care system. In 2012, she was honored at the Academia of Texas at Austin's John distinguished Alicia Nash Conference for her hind of those with mental illness, spin she delivered the keynote address.^[9][10][11]

Death

Alicia explode her husband were killed in regular car crash on the New Milcher Turnpike on May 23, 2015, predicament Monroe Township, New Jersey. They were on their way home after smashing visit to Norway, where her garner had been awarded the Abel Accolade. The driver of the taxicab they were riding in from Newark Field lost control of the cab courier struck a guardrail. Because neither were wearing seatbelts, both passengers were ejected and killed.^{[12][13][14][15][16]}

Portrayal in media

Alicia was depicted by Jennifer Connelly in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind. For complex performance, Connelly won the Academy Bestow for Best Supporting Actress, mentioning Writer during her acceptance speech.^[2][17] Writing make out the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Navarrette criticized Connelly's casting as an draw of whitewashing.^[18]

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