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Beloved colleague Alex Pines passed away in 2024. He was the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Pines completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics and chemistry in Israel before moving to the United States in 1968. He earned his Ph.D. in chemical physics from MIT in 1972 and joined the Berkeley faculty shortly thereafter. Throughout his career, he received numerous awards and honors, including the Michael Faraday Medal from the Royal Society and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. His research in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) established him as a pioneer in developing applications for NMR spectroscopy. Pines' work focused on multiple-quantum spectroscopy and innovative pulse sequence techniques that expanded the capability and applicability of NMR in diverse fields, including biomedicine and materials science. He made significant contributions through novel methods like laser-polarized NMR and ex situ mobile MRI, impacting both theoretical and practical aspects of molecular imaging and material characterization.
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