Alexander Pines

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 solids.

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

In 1991 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2000 Dickson Prize in Science. He received the Faraday Medal and the Langmuir price. In 2008 he received the Russell Varian Prize.