Stuart Warren

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Stuart Warren
Born(1938-12-24)24 December 1938
Died22 March 2020(2020-03-22) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Organic Chemistry, University-level textbooks
AwardsBader Award (2002)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorMalcolm Clark

Stuart Warren (24 December 1938 โ€“ 22 March 2020)

organic chemist and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students.[2][3]

Academic career

Warren was educated at

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]

The Warren group

Warren's research group is renowned for having produced some of the most successful organic chemistry academics in the UK, including:[1]

Textbook authorship

Warren is well known for his university-level textbooks Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group (1974),

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
.

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