Alexander Pines

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Alexander Pines

Born 1945
Fields Chemistry
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Doctoral advisor John S. Waugh
Notable awards Teaching Excellence Award; Langmuir Medal; Faraday Medal; Wolf Prize; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Royal Society

Alexander Pines (born 1945) is the Glenn Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Scientist 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.

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