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Nash, John Forbes was born in 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, WORLD0.
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John Forbes Nash
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John Forbes Nash, American Research mathematician. Co-recipient Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences, 1994, Business Week award University Rotterdam, 1998, Leroy P. Steele prize in mathematics, 1999; recipient von Neumann Theory prize Operations Research Society American, Business Week award Erasmus U., 1998; Sloan fellow, National Science Foundation fellow; Westinghouse scholar.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon U., 1945; Master of Science, Carnegie-Mellon U., 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1950.
Career
Research assistant, instructor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1950-1951;
Moore instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951-1953;
assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953-1957;
associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957-1959;
senior research mathematician, Princeton University. Consultant Research and Development Corporation, summers 1950, 52, 54. Visiting member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1956-1957, 61-62, 63-64.
Research associate mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966-1967.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Econometric Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Member NAS.
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American
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Co-recipient Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences, 1994, Business Week award University Rotterdam, 1998, Leroy P. Steele prize in mathematics, 1999. Recipient von Neumann Theory prize Operations Research Society American, Business Week award Erasmus U., 1998. Sloan fellow, National Science Foundation fellow. Westinghouse scholar.Co-recipient Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences, 1994, Business Week award University Rotterdam, 1998, Leroy P. Steele prize in mathematics, 1999. Recipient von Neumann Theory prize Operations Research Society American, Business Week award Erasmus U., 1998. Sloan fellow, National Science Foundation fellow.
Westinghouse scholar.