Warren Richard Roper FRS FRSNZ FNZIC (born 1938) is a New Zealand chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland.
He completed his PhD in 1963, and spent three years undertaking postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina in the United States before returning to New Zealand.
At that point Roper was appointed as lecturer at the University of Auckland, where he remained until his retirement (apart from visiting lectureships at other institutions).
Roper's research has focused on synthetic and structural organometallic chemistry,[2] and particularly compounds with metal-carbon, -silicon, -tin or -boron bonds.
[6] He gave a valedictory address at the 2006 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Conference in honour of his retirement.