Alicia Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist and mental health advocate who is better recognized as the wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. John who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the math-specific Abel Prize. A physics graduate from MIT, she gave up her professional aspirations to support her husband and her son, who were both diagnosed with schizophrenia. During the early onset of delusions, she had attempted to keep her husband’s psychological issues a secret to save his career, but later they parted ways and got divorced. She again started to take care of her ex-husband after his mother’s death a few years later. He was able to control his delusions with her support, resuming academic career in later life. Alicia and John, who later remarried, were the subject of the 1998 book, A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar, and the 2001 film of the same title that won several academy awards.
