American Decades
"John F. Nash, Jr.—Autobiography"
Autobiography
By: John F. Nash Jr.
Date: 1994
Source: Nash, John F. "John F. Nash, Jr.—Autobiography." The Nobel Foundation. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.h... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se/ (accessed June 13, 2003).
About the Author: John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–) was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1950. He joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resigning in 1959 when schizophrenia began to impair his judgment. Intermittent stays in asylums punctuated travel in Europe and periods of lucid concentration on mathematics. He seems to have willed his own recovery and won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics.
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1950's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- "The Development of Vaccines Against Yellow Fever"
- "The Drugs of Microbial Origin"
- "Studies in Human Subjects on Active Immunization against Poliomyelitis"
- Heart-Lung Machine
- "Mother! Your Child's Cough at Night May Be the First Sign of Chest Cold or Asian Flu"
- "Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances, Revised 1958"
- "Statistics of Health"
- What Do We Eat
- "Private Expenditures for Medical Care and for Voluntary Health Insurance: 1950 to 1958"
- "Heart Attack"
- "New Duties, New Faces"
- "John F. Nash, Jr.—Autobiography"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
