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 at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. He stayed at Cambridge to complete a
PhD
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under Malcolm Clark, before moving to
Harvard
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to carry out
post-doctoral research with
F. H. Westheimer. Dr. Warren returned to Trinity as a research fellow, and in 1971 took up a post as a teaching fellowship at
Churchill College. 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 in 2002.
Following his death the
RSC 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:
[
* Professor Nick Greeves (]University of Liverpool
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)
* Professor Varinder Aggarwal, Professor Paul Wyatt (University of Bristol
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)
* Professor Jonathan Clayden (University of Bristol
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, formerly University of Manchester
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)
* Professor Peter O'Brien (University of York
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)
* Professor Adam Nelson (University of Leeds
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)
* Professor Kelly Chibale (University of Cape Town
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Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest univer ...
)
* Professor Iain Coldham (University of Sheffield
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)
* Professor Nikolai Kuhnert ( Jacobs University Bremen)
* Dr. David Fox (University of Warwick
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)
* Dr. Lorenzo Caggiano (University of Bath
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)
* Professor Richard Hartley (University of Glasgow
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)
* Dr. Julian Knight (Newcastle University
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)
* 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 2012
External links
Stuart Warren's Cambridge staff profile
References
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1938 births
2020 deaths
British organic 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