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] 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.
[4] He remained a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge until his retirement in 2006.
[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.