Evan Jay Crane (February 14, 1889 – December 30, 1966) was an American chemist and the editor of '' Chemical Abstracts'' 1915–1958. He graduated from

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in 1911, and received an Honorary D.Sc. there in 1938. In 1951 he was awarded the

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, the highest honour of the

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, and in 1953 the Austin M. Patterson Award. In 1958, at the 134th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, Crane was presented with a commemorative scroll from the ACS Division of Chemical Literature, worded as follows:

Publications

*''A Guide to the Literature of Chemistry'', by E. J. Crane and Austin M. Patterson (Wiley, 1927) (2nd edition: 1957, with Eleanor B. Marr)

References

External links

Photograph of Crane
in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
''A Guide to the Literature of Chemistry'' (1927)
full text at

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