Arthur L. Day Medal
The Arthur L. Day Medal is a prize for Geosciences of the Geological Society of America. It is named after Arthur Louis Day. It is an annual (or periodic) awarded for outstanding achievements in solving geological problems by using physical or chemical methods.
There is also a Arthur L. Day Prize from the National Academy of Sciences.
Award winners
- 2013 Rick Carlson
- 2012 John M. Eiler
- 2011 Susan L. Brantley
- 2010 George E. Gehrels
- 2009 T. Mark Harrison
- 2008 Kenneth A. Farley
- 2007 Mary Lou Zoback
- 2006 Frank M. Richter
- 2005 Donald W. Forsyth
- 2004 Edward M. Stolper
- 2003 Dennis V. Kent
- 2002 Richard G. Gordon
- 2001 Richard J. O'Connell
- 2000 Stephen John Sparks (Steve Sparks )
- 1999 Donald J. DePaolo
- 1998 E. Bruce Watson
- 1997 Edward A. Irving
- 1996 Robert A. Berner
- 1995 Thomas J. Ahrens
- 1994 David Walker
- 1993 Hugh P. Taylor Jr.
- 1992 Susan Werner Kieffer
- 1991 Ian S. E. Carmichael
- 1990 William S. Fyfe
- 1989 Dan McKenzie
- 1988 Claude J. Allègre
- 1987 Don L. Anderson
- 1986 E -an Zen
- 1985 Freeman Gilbert
- 1984 Wallace S. Broecker
- 1983 Harmon Craig
- 1982 Eugene M. Shoemaker
- 1981 Donald L. Turcotte
- 1980 Henry G. Thode
- 1978 Samuel Epstein
- 1977 Akiho Miyashiro
- 1976 Hans Ramberg
- 1975 Allan V. Cox
- 1974 A. E. Ringwood
- 1973 David T. Griggs
- 1972 Frank Press
- 1971 Hans P. Eugster
- 1970 Gerald J. Wasserburg
- Harold C. Urey in 1969
- 1968 Frederick J. Vine
- 1967 O. Frank Tuttle
- 1966 Robert M. Garrels
- 1965 Walter H. Munk
- 1964 James Burleigh Thompson Jr.
- 1963 Keith Edward Bullen
- 1962 Hatten Schuyler Yoder
- 1961 Willard F. Libby
- 1960 Konrad B. Krauskopf
- 1959 Edward C. Bullard
- 1958 John Verhoogen
- 1957 Hugo Benioff
- 1956 Alfred Nier
- 1955 Earl Ingerson
- 1954 Marion King Hubbert
- 1953 John F. Schairer
- 1952 Sterling Hendricks
- 1950 Albert Francis Birch
- 1949 Maurice Ewing
- 1948 George W. Morey