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23 May

John Forbes Nash Jr. was killed in an automobile accident

Nobel Prize mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 - May 23, 2015) was born in Bluefield. Nash excelled in mathematics at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) before entering the doctoral program at Princeton University in 194...

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