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Alan Benesi
About Alan J. BenesiAlan Benesi grew up in Berkeley, California. He earned a B.A. in Chemistry at UC Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Biophysics at UC Berkeley. He postdocked at UC Santa ...view moreAbout Alan J. BenesiAlan Benesi grew up in Berkeley, California. He earned a B.A. in Chemistry at UC Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Biophysics at UC Berkeley. He postdocked at UC Santa Barbara where he fell in love with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. After his postdoc, he taught chemistry at Eastern Oregon State College in the beautiful Grande Ronde Valley for five years, then at UC Irvine for two years. In 1985 he became manager of the NSF Regional NMR Facility at the University of South Carolina, and in 1987 became director of the NMR Facility at Pennsylvania State University where he worked until 2012. In the past several years he has written two books, A Primer of NMR Theory with Calculations in Mathematica and Theory of Consciousness. He is currently working on a new illustrated book that will be available soon, and has started a project at UC Irvine using NMR to create atomic fingerprints of the pure components of cannabis.view less