Evan Jay Crane (February 14, 1889 – December 30, 1966)[citation needed] was an American chemist and the editor of Chemical Abstracts 1915–1958.

[1] He graduated from Ohio State University in 1911,[2] and received an Honorary D.Sc.

there in 1938.

[3] In 1951 he was awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honour of the American Chemical Society,[2] and in 1953 the Austin M. Patterson Award.

[4] 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: For Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Literature: