David Pines, a prominent physicist, died May 3, 2018, at age 93.

Pines graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944, and served two years in the Navy. He earned a master’s degree in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1950 in physics from Princeton. He was then an instructor at Penn before moving to the University of Illinois as a postdoctoral researcher for John Bardeen *36, who later was twice awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Pines’ work with Bardeen earned him a tenure-track professorship at Princeton from 1955 to 1958 before he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. After a year he returned to Illinois as a professor of physics. He retired from Illinois in 1995 and then worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California, Davis, and the Santa Fe Institute.

He was regarded as a leader of the generation of condensed-matter physicists. Although he never won a Nobel Prize, Pines was recognized as contributing advances that directly led to several others’ Nobel awards. He was a member of the National Academy of Science and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Pines was predeceased in 2015 by his wife, Suzy. He is survived by two children and three grandchildren.

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Graduate Class of 1950