Alexander Pines

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Alexander Pines (born June 22, 1945 in Tel Aviv ) is an American chemist . He is a pioneer in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), which he applied in particular to solids.

Pines grew up in Rhodesia . He studied mathematics and chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and went to the USA in 1968, where he received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under John S. Waugh . From 1972 he was at the University of California, Berkeley , where he is now Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry.

In 1974 he became a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1978 a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1985, Pines received the Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award , the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1991 and the Irving Langmuir Award in 1998 . In 1988 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1999 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2000 he received the Dickson Prize in Science and the Remsen Award and in 2004 the Faraday Prize . In 2008 he received the Russell Varian Prize.

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