and his family's apparent genetic disposition (Nash's younger son, John Jr., has also been diagnosed with schizophrenia), reduced his chances. Courtenay Harding, director of the Center for ...

John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony. Alicia Nash. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial giant and inventor, did not include economics when he put together his 1894 will and created prizes in physics ...

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank based in Santa Monica, California -- the RAND Corporation. Although Nash ...

Since its beginnings, the prize category has been heavily dominated by Americans or by foreign scholars working in the U.S., including, in 1994, John Nash. Meet the Nobel laureates in economics ...