Alexander Pines
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Alexander Pines (born 1945) is the Glenn Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Principal Investigator in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a recipient of the highly prestigious Teaching Excellence Award at UC Berkeley, and has introduced many first year students to the world of Chemistry in his Introductory Chemistry 1A course. He is also an avid cigar aficionado.
Education: B.Sc. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1967); Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972).
Pines is a pioneer in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, particularly for solids.