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My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. Of course I can’t consciously remember anything from the first 2 or 3 years of my life after birth. (And, also, one suspects, psychologically, that the earliest memories have become “memories of memories” and are comparable to traditional folk tales passed on by tellers and listeners from generation to generation.) But facts are available when direct memory fails for many circumstances.
From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1994, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1995. ⒸThe Nobel Foundation 1994.
John Forbes Nash was deceased at the time of publication.
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Nash, J.F., Holden, H., Piene, R. (2019). Autobiography. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize 2013-2017. The Abel Prize. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99028-6_16
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