Stuart Warren (24 December 1938 – 22 March 2020)
was a British
organic chemist
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and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students.
Academic career
Warren was educated at
Cheadle Hulme School near
Manchester
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and read the
Natural Sciences Tripos
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at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. 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
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In 1958, a trust was establish ...
in 1971. He remained a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge until his retirement in 2006. He won the
Royal Society of Chemistry
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Bader Award The Bader Award is a prize for organic chemistry awarded annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1989. The winner, who receives £2,000 and a medal, gives a lecture tour in the UK.
Winners
Source:
See also
* List of chemistry awards ...
in 2002.
Following his death the
RSC
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produced a themed collection of his work.
The Warren group
Warren's research group is renowned for having produced some of the most successful organic chemistry academics in the UK, including:
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* Professor Nick Greeves (]University of Liverpool
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)
* Professor Varinder Aggarwal
Varinder Kumar Aggarwal (born 1961) is a British organic chemist specialising in asymmetric synthesis. He is a Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the School of Chemistry of the University of Bristol.
Early life
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, Professor Paul Wyatt (University of Bristol
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)
* Professor Jonathan Clayden (University of Bristol
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, established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter
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, formerly University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
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)
* Professor Peter O'Brien ( University of York)
* Professor Adam Nelson (University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
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)
* Professor Kelly Chibale (University of Cape Town
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)
* Professor Iain Coldham (University of Sheffield
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– Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield
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)
* Professor Nikolai Kuhnert (Jacobs University Bremen
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)
* Dr. David Fox (University of Warwick
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, budget = £698.2 million (2020â ...
)
* Dr. Lorenzo Caggiano (University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
)
* Professor Richard Hartley (University of Glasgow
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)
* Dr. Julian Knight ( Newcastle University)
* Dr. Jason Eames (University of Hull
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)
* Dr. Daniel Sejer Pedersen (University of Copenhagen
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)
* Dr. Stephen Thomas (University of Edinburgh
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)
Textbook authorship
Warren is well known for his university-level textbooks ''Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group'' (1974), ''Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach'' (1978), ''Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach'' (first edition 1982, second edition 2008), and its graduate-level sequel, ''Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control'' (2007). He is perhaps best known as one of the authors of the best-selling undergraduate
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text ''Organic Chemistry'' (first edition 2000, second edition 2012Peter Wothers
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.
External links
Stuart Warren's Cambridge staff profile
References
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1938 births
2020 deaths
Organic chemists
British chemists
Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge
People educated at Cheadle Hulme School