john and alicea and family and amazing partnership, beautiful minds, beautiful hearts. director ron howard tweeting rip, brilliant nobel prize winning john nash and his remarkable wife alicea. it was an honor telling part of their story. john spent much of his life at princeton university first as a graduate student, and then as a senior researcher. princeton university calling both john and his wife quote, very special members of their community, saying john's remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians economists and scientists many describing john as a genius but even that seemed to fall short. >> i think of myself as a genius. but i later on realized it is meaningless in a sense. you're losing your -- >> john was 86.