Editing John Forbes Nash Jr. (section)

== Personal life ==
In 1951, the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) hired Nash as a [[C. L. E. Moore instructor]] in the mathematics faculty. About a year later, Nash began a relationship with Eleanor Stier, a nurse he met while admitted as a patient. They had a son, John David Stier,<ref name = cs-slate-2001-12 /> but Nash left Stier when she told him of her pregnancy.<ref>Goldstein, Scott (April 10, 2005)  [https://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/10/eleanor_stier_84_brookline_nurse_had_son_with_nobel_laureate_mathematician_john_f_nash_jr/ Eleanor Stier, 84; Brookline nurse had son with Nobel laureate mathematician John F. Nash Jr.], Boston.com News.</ref> The film based on Nash's life, ''A Beautiful Mind'', was criticized during the run-up to the 2002 Oscars for omitting this aspect of his life. He was said to have abandoned her based on her social status, which he thought to have been beneath his.<ref>Sutherland, John (March 18, 2002) [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/mar/18/awardsandprizes.highereducation "Beautiful mind, lousy character"],  ''The Guardian'', March 18, 2002.</ref>

In [[Santa Monica, California]], in 1954, while in his twenties, Nash was arrested for [[indecent exposure]] in a sting operation targeting gay men.<ref>{{ cite news |title=John Nash, mathematician – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11627306/John-Nash-mathematician-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11627306/John-Nash-mathematician-obituary.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=May 24, 2015 |access-date=August 29, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Although the charges were dropped, he was stripped of his top-secret [[security clearance]] and fired from [[RAND Corporation]], where he had worked as a consultant.<ref>{{cite news |first=Sylvia |last=Nasar |author-link=Sylvia Nasar |title=The sum of a man |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/26/biography.highereducation |quote=Contrary to widespread references to Nash's "numerous homosexual liaisons", he was not gay. While he had several emotionally intense relationships with other men when he was in his early 20s, I never interviewed anyone who claimed, much less provided evidence, that Nash ever had sex with another man. Nash was arrested in a police trap in a public lavatory in Santa Monica in 1954, at the height of the McCarthy hysteria. The military think-tank where he was a consultant, stripped him of his top-secret security clearance and fired him ... The charge – indecent exposure – was dropped. |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 25, 2002 |access-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref>

Not long after breaking up with Stier, Nash met [[Alicia Nash|Alicia Lardé Lopez-Harrison]], a [[United States nationality law|naturalized U.S. citizen]] from [[El Salvador]]. Lardé was a graduate of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] with a major in physics.<ref name="Nash1995" /> They married in February 1957. Although Nash was an [[Atheism|atheist]],<ref name="Sylvia Nasar 2011 143">[[#CITEREFNasar1998|Nasar (2011)]], Chapter 17: Bad Boys, p. 143: "In this circle, Nash learned to make a virtue of necessity, styling himself self-consciously as a "free thinker." He announced that he was an atheist."</ref> the ceremony was performed in an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal church]].<ref name="charlesmartin">{{Cite web|last=Livio|first=Susan K. |date=June 11, 2017|title=Son of 'A Beautiful Mind' John Nash has one regret |url=https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2017/06/two_years_after_parents_death_son_of_a_beautiful_m.html |access-date=June 17, 2020 |website=NJ Advance Media|language=en}}</ref> In 1958, Nash was appointed to a tenured position at MIT, and his first signs of mental illness soon became evident. He resigned his position at MIT in the spring of 1959.<ref name="Nash1995" /> His son, John Charles Martin Nash, was born a few months later. The child was not named for a year<ref name = cs-slate-2001-12 /> because Alicia felt that Nash should have a say in choosing the name. Due to the stress of dealing with his illness, Nash and Lardé divorced in 1963. After his final hospital discharge in 1970, Nash lived in Lardé's house as a [[Boarding house|boarder]]. This stability seemed to help him, and he learned how to consciously discard his paranoid [[delusion]]s.<ref name='david'>[https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/daily/mind-book-review.html David Goodstein, 'Mathematics to Madness, and Back'], ''The New York Times'', June 11, 1998</ref> Princeton allowed him to audit classes. He continued to work on mathematics and was eventually allowed to teach again. In the 1990s, Lardé and Nash resumed their relationship, remarrying in 2001. John Charles Martin Nash earned a PhD in mathematics from [[Rutgers University]] and was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]] as an adult.<ref name="charlesmartin" />