Alois Fürstner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alois Fürstner

Austrian chemist

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1962

Place of Birth: Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Alois Fürstner (born 23 July 1962) is an Austrian chemist.
He is director of Organometallic Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim, Germany.He has been awarded the Leibniz Prize (1999), the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize (2004), the Heinrich Wieland Prize (2006), the Otto Bayer Prize (2006), the Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2008), the Karl Ziegler Prize (2013), and the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize (2013).
He was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2002.