Stuart Warren (24 December 1938 – 22 March 2020)[1] was a British organic chemist and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students.[2][3]
Stuart Warren | |
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Born | 24 December 1938 |
Died | 22 March 2020 | (aged 81)
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Known for | Organic Chemistry, University-level textbooks |
Awards | Bader Award (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Malcolm Clark |
Warren was educated at Cheadle Hulme School near Manchester and read the Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge. He stayed at Cambridge to complete a PhD with Malcolm Clark, before moving to Harvard to do post-doctoral research with F. H. Westheimer. Dr Warren returned to Trinity as a research fellow and subsequently took up a post as a teaching fellow at Churchill College in 1971.[4] He remained a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge until his retirement in 2006.[5] He won the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2002.[6] Following his death the RSC produced a themed collection of his work.[7]
Warren's research group is renowned for having produced some of the most successful organic chemistry academics in the UK, including:[1]
Warren is well known for his university-level textbooks Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group (1974),[8] Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach (1978),[9] Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (first edition 1982,[10] second edition 2008[11]), and its graduate-level sequel, Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (2007).[12] He is perhaps best known as one of the authors of the best-selling undergraduate text Organic Chemistry (first edition 2000,[13] second edition 2012[14]), which he wrote with his former students Jonathan Clayden and Nick Greeves, and fellow Cambridge lecturer Peter Wothers.
In memory of Stuart Warren