Alexander Pines

Alexander Pines
Born	(1945-06-22) June 22, 1945 (age 79) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine (today Israel)
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Cross-polarization NMR spectroscopy
Awards	Russell Varian Prize (2008) Faraday Lectureship (2004) Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (2003) ForMemRS (2002) Dickson Prize (2001) Irving Langmuir Award (1998) Centenary Prize (1993) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1991) Guggenheim Fellowship (1988) Bourke Award (1988) Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards (1976)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Doctoral advisor	John S. Waugh
Doctoral students	Robert Tycko, Warren S. Warren,Mei Hong

Alexander Pines (born June 22, 1945)^[1] is an American chemist. He is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the Department of Bioengineering. He was born in 1945, grew up in Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and studied undergraduate mathematics and chemistry in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Coming to the United States in 1968, Pines obtained his Ph.D. in chemical physics at M.I.T. in 1972 and joined the UC Berkeley faculty later that year.