Alexander Pines, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alexander Pines

Israeli-born American chemist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1945

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alexander Pines (born June 22, 1945) 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.