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ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation Chairman 1914-58; Mayor of Upper Arlington, Ohio 1924. | ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation Chairman 1914-58; Mayor of Upper Arlington, Ohio 1924. | ||
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*''A Guide to Literature of Chemistry'' (1927) with [[Austin McDowell Patterson|Austin Patterson]] | |||
== Further reading == | |||
*Dikeman, Robert K. "Crane, Evan Jay (1889-1966)." ''Dictionary of American library biography'', ed. by Bohdan S. Wynar. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1978, pp 100-102. | |||
== Papers == | == Papers == | ||
Revision as of 16:16, 27 January 2025
Evan Jay Crane (1899-1966) forged the 'key to the world's chemical literature'...organized, along with the help of Dr. Patterson, and weld[ed] chemical information into a discipline...was devoted to bettering [scientists'] science by bettering their access to it.
Life
From 1914 to 1958, Crane served as editor of Chemical Abstracts, the leading abstract journal in the field of science (largely due to its "effective indexing of chemistry"). Crane was the first director of the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) from 1956 to 1958.
Crane started the List of Periodicals Abstracted by Chemical Abstracts in 1908 to help the user identify the complete titles of materials cited by abbreviations and to provide the user with a list of publishers and addresses for the abstracted material.
Contributions
Crane published numerous articles on abstracting, indexing and documentation activities. He changed the indexing system of Chemical Abstracts from word indexing to classified subject entry. He developed a unified system of chemical nomenclature.
AWARDS:
1937 Chemical Industry Medal (Society of Chemical Industry of London); 1951 Priestly Medal (ACS); 1953 Patterson Award (ACS); Changed to Patterson-Crane (1975), honoring Crane; Honorary Doctor of Science (Ohio State).
OFFICES:
ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation Chairman 1914-58; Mayor of Upper Arlington, Ohio 1924.
Publications
- A Guide to Literature of Chemistry (1927) with Austin Patterson
Further reading
- Dikeman, Robert K. "Crane, Evan Jay (1889-1966)." Dictionary of American library biography, ed. by Bohdan S. Wynar. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1978, pp 100-102.
Papers
LOCATION #1: CAS Library, 2540 Olentangy River Road, P.O. Box 3012, Columbus, OH 43210-0012.
INCLUDES: Papers and correspondence are housed in an off-site facility of CAS. None of the papers have been processed or indexed but this is considered a temporary status since in the future CAS is looking to organize the archives. Anyone interested in examining Crane's papers should notify the CAS librarian who can retrieve the papers within a day or two from the off-site storage.
FINDING AID: None available at this time.
SOURCE: Letter from W. V. Metanomski, Senior Editor, Authority Database Operations, CAS (25 June 1996).