Wolf Prize for Chemistry (together with Richard R. Ernst) in 1991. He was awarded the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research 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 Weizmann Institute of Science, Universite Paul Cezanne, University of Paris and the University of Rome, and past President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance. References External links Biography U.C. Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty page Pines Group Webpage Alex Pines webpage 1945 births Living people People from Tel Aviv 21st-century American chemists Faraday Lecturers Foreign Members of the Royal Society Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Israeli chemists Israeli emigrants to the United States Israeli Jews Jewish American scientists Jewish chemists MIT Department of Physics alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Rhodesian Jews UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty White Rhodesian people Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates Nuclear magnetic resonance Fellows of the American Physical Society 21st-century American Jews