David Pines Scientist

David Pines (born June 8, 1924) is the Founding Director of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) and the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) (respectively, US wide and international institutions dedicated to research in and the understanding of emergent phenomena), Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC Davis, Research Professor of Physics and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a staff member in the office of the Materials, Physics, and Applications Division at Los Alamos.His seminal contributions to the theory of many-body systems and to theoretical astrophysics have been recognized by two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Feenberg Medal, Friemann, Dirac, and Drucker Prizes, and by his election to the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Visiting Professorships at Caltech, College de France, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, University of Leiden, and Universite de Paris.He is the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Study, UIUC (1968–70), was Vice-President of the Aspen Center for Physics from 1968–1972, founder and Co-chair of the US-USSR Cooperative Program in Physics, 1968–89; and a Co-founder, Vice-President, Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Co-Chair of the Science Board the Santa Fe Institute, from 1982 to 1996.He has been the organizer or co-organizer of fifteen workshops and two summer schools of theoretical physics, is currently an Honorary Trustee and Honorary Member of the Aspen Center for Physics, and a member of the Board of Overseers, Sabanci University, Istanbul.