Helen Keller (Alabama) 1880 - 1968

Helen Keller (Alabama)

1880 - 1968

This inspiring woman was an American educator, advocate for the blind and deaf

Stricken by an illness at the age of 2, Keller was

Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous

In 1890, Keller began speech classes at the Horace Mann School

From 1894 to 1896, Keller attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City. There, she worked on improving her communication skills and studied regular academic subjects.

John Nash (West Virginia) 

1928 - 2015

John Nash was one of the greatest thinkers in mathematics of

After school Nash won a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of

Later, around 1958, while teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology the

He would disappear without warning sometimes for days on end and on return would offer no explanation for his absence, 
he would go off into long reveries in the midst of his lectures, 
he would make seemingly meaningless statements to colleagues and students and significantly he became increasingly paranoid for instance not allowing visitors to his office to stand between him and the door and believing that he was being followed all the time.

Nash became known as the Phantom of Fine Hall because of

During his life Nash was the recipient of many awards for