http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/arts/john-nash-nobel-medal-to-be-auctioned-at-sothebys.html 2016-09-05 09:54:39 Beautiful Mind, Valuable Medal: John Nash’s Nobel to Be Auctioned Mr. Nash, whose life inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994; Sotheby’s will hold the auction on Oct. 17. === James D. Watson’s Now, the Nobel Prize medal belonging to the mathematician Mr. Nash, whose life inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994, at a time when he was unemployed, after years of struggling with mental illness. The prize, he later said, “had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most prize winners.” (He died in a car accident last year, at age 86.) Mr. Nash’s medal, which is being offered in its original red leather case, is only one of about a dozen Nobel medals known to have been sold at auction in the past few years, according to Sotheby’s, as part of a