Earl Alison Evans

Background

Evans, Earl Alison was born on March 11, 1910 in Baltimore.

Education

Student, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1922-1926; Bachelor of Science, Johns Hopkins, 1931; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1936.

Career

Research assistant pharmacology, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1931-1932; assistant laboratory endocrine research, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1932-1934; university fellow biochemistry, Columbia, 1934-1936; instructor biochemistry, University of Chicago, 1937-1939; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1939-1941; associate professor biochemistry, acting department chairman, University of Chicago, 1941-1942; on leave, 1947-1948; professor, since 1942; department chairman biochemistry, 1942-1972. Fellow Rockefeller Foundation U. Sheffield, England, 1939-1940. Chief science officer American embassy, London, 1947-1948.

Delegate Vatican Academy Science, 1948. Consultant to secretary state, 1951-1953. Member board science counselors National Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1960-1963.

Member division medical science National Research Council, 1962-1965. Chairman postdoctoral fellowships National Academy Science-National Research Council, 1963-1965. Member divisional committee biological and medical science National Science Foundation, 1963-1966.

Harvey Society lectureship, 1942. National lectureship American Chemical Society, 1945. Pan American lectureship, 1948.

Achievements

• Earl Alison Evans has been listed as a noteworthy Biochemist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Biological Action of the Vitamins a Symposium
  • Biological Action of the Vitamins a Symp

Membership

Advisory board American Foundation Continuing Education. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Chemical Society (Eli Lilly prize in biological chemistry 1942), American Society Biological Chemists (treasurer 1943-1944), Bio-chemical Society (Great Britain), American Society Bacteriologists, Asociacion Quimica Argentina, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.

Connections

Son of Earl Alison and Florence (Lewis) E. 1 adopted child, David Lasswell.

Father:

Earl Alison Evans

Mother:

Florence (Lewis) Evans