Earl Alison Evans (March 11, 1910 – October 5, 1999) was the chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of Chicago for 30 years, during which time he pioneered several techniques whose use is now widespread. During the Second World War, Evans worked for the US Government developing new treatments for malaria, and in 1947 he was named scientific attaché to the American Embassy in London. Evans died, aged 89, in Chicago. Donald Steiner described him as an "excellent scientist", saying that his work was "groundbreaking".