Alexander Pines

Background

He was born in 1945, grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and studied undergraduate mathematics and chemistry in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972; D (honorary), University Paris, 1999.

Career

Assistant professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1975; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1975-1980; professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1980; President's chair, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1997; Chandellor's research professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1997; Miller research professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1998. Faculty senior scientist materials science division Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, since 1975. Consultant Mobil Oil Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey, 1980-1984, Shell Oil Corporation, Houston, since 1981.

Chairman Bytel Corporation, Berkeley, California, 1981-1985. Visiting professor Weizmann Institute Science, 1982. Advisory professor East China Normal U., Shanghai, People's Republican of China, 1985.

Science director Nalorac, Martinez, California,1986-1992. Joliot-Curie professor Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chemie, Paris, 1987. Walter J. Chute Distinguished lecturer Dalhousie U., 1989, Charles A. McDowell lecturer U. B.C., 1989, E. Leon Watkins lecturer Wichita State University, 1990.

Hinshelwood lecturer, U. Oxford, 1990, Arkansas Gordon Distinguished lecturer U. Toronto, 1990, Venable lecturer U. North Carolina, 1990, Max Born lecturer Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1990. William Draper Harkins lecturer U.Chgo., 1991, Kolthoff lecturer University of Minnesota, 1991. Maryland.-Grace lecturer U. Maryland., 1992.

Member advanced board National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Institute Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Center Pure and Applied Mathematics University of California, Berkeley. Member of advisory panel chemical National Science Foundation. Randolph T. Major Distinguished Lecturer U. Connecticut, 1992.

Member board science Governors Weizemann Institute Science, since 1997. Peter Smith lecturer Duke U., 1993, Arthur William Davidson lector U. Kansas, 1992, Arthur Birch lector Australian National U., 1993, Richard C. Lord Memorial lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993, Steacie lecturer National Research Council Canada, 1993, Centenary lecturer Royal Society Chemistry, 1994, Morris Loeb lecturer Harvard University, 1994, Jesse Boot Foundation lecturer, U. Nottingham, 1994, Frontiers in Chemistry lecturer Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., 1995, Bergman lecturer Weizmann Institute Science, 1995, faculty research lecturer University of California, Berkeley, 1996, Raymond & Beverly Sackler lecturer Tel Aviv U., 1996. Priestley lecturer Pennsylvania State University, 1997.

Amy Mellon lecturer Purdue University, 1997.

Achievements

• Among his many prestigious awards and honors, Pines has received the Langmuir Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Wolf Prize for Chemistry (together with Richard R Ernst) in 1991. He was awarded the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical of the American Chemical Society in 1999. In 2005, an Ampere Symposium was held in honor of Pines' 60th birthday in Chamonix, France, and in 2008, he was awarded the Russell Varian Prize at the European Magnetic Resonance Conference.
  
  (Previous Varian Prizes winners: Jean Jeener, Erwin Hahn, Nicolaas Bloembergen, John S Waugh, and Alfred G Redfield) Pines has also been recognized by numerous teaching honors, including the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London). He is Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Paris and the University of Rome, and past President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance.

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society (chairman division chemical physics), Institute Physics. Member NAS, American Chemical society (member Executive Committee division physical chemistry, Signature award, Baekeland medal, Harrison Howe award 1991, Irving Langmuir award 1998), Royal society Chemistry (Bourke lecturer), International Society Magnetic Resonance (vice president, president 1993-1996), Lawrence Hall Science Outreach Committee.

Connections

Married Ayala Malach, August 31, 1967 (divorced 1983). Children: Itai, Shani. Married Ditsa Kafry, May 5, 1983.

Children: Noami, Jonathan, Talia.

Father:

Michael Pines

Mother:

Neima (Ratner) Pines

Spouse:

Ditsa Kafry

Spouse:

Ayala Malach

child:

Noami Pines

child:

Shani Pines

child:

Talia Pines

child:

Itai Pines

child:

Jonathan Pines