The Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship is awarded by the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
"to a scientist making new contributions to the physics of the Earth whose four to six lectures would prove a solid, timely, and useful addition to the knowledge and literature in the field." The prize was established by the physicist
Arthur L. Day
Arthur Louis Day (October 30, 1869 – March 2, 1960) was an American geophysicist and volcanologist. He studied high temperature thermometry, seismology and geothermal energy.
Early life
Day was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts and rece ...
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Recipients
*2020:
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton - ''For her work that combines geodynamic modeling, petrology, geochemistry and field investigations to provide first-order constraints and fundamental insights into planetary chemical differentiation processes.''
*2017:
Susan Solomon - ''For her work in understanding atmospheric chemistry related to stratospheric ozone depletion and for her leadership in
communicating climate change science.''
*2014:
Richard Alley
Richard Blane Alley (born 18 August 1957) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 240 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryo ...
- ''For his studies of the flow of ice sheets and ice streams''
*2011: - ''For innovative use of U-Th and stable isotope systems to discover and quantify abrupt 30-500 ka temperature excursions and their timings attending Milankovitch cycle-induced global climate changes.''
*2008: - ''For development of the new field of "chemical geodynamics" through the use of the chemical and isotopic signature of mantle-derived samples to map and constrain the dynamical evolution of the Earth's interior.''
*2005:
Herbert E. Huppert - ''For fundamental research into the fluid mechanics of natural and multiphase flows and for pioneering the field of geological fluid mechanics''.
*2002:
Wallace Smith Broecker - ''For his uniquely evocative, creative voice that has fundamentally changed the way we think about the role of oceans in the climate system.''
*1999:
Sean C. Solomon
Sean Carl Solomon (born October 24, 1945) is the director of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where he is also the William B. Ransford Professor of Earth and Planetary Science. Before moving to Columbia in 2012, h ...
- ''For his analysis of seismological data constraining the tectonics of the earth's lithosphere, and for his development of global tectonic models of the moon and terrestrial planets.''
*1996:
James G. Anderson
James Gilbert Anderson (born 1944) is the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University, a position he has held since 1982. From 1998 to 2001, he was the chairman of Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biol ...
- ''For his pioneering work on the study of the abundance and chemical physics of radicals in the stratosphere and the effects of human influence on the ozone layer.''
*1993:
Hiroo Kanamori - ''For his outstanding contributions to the fundamental physics of the earthquake source process and to its application to earthquake prediction and mitigation of seismic risks.''
*1990:
Ho-kwang Mao
Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao (; born June 18, 1941) is a Chinese-American geologist. He is the director of the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Shanghai, China. He was a staff scientist at Geophysical Laboratory of the ...
- ''For his measurement of fundamental properties of elements and minerals under extreme conditions and development of the diamond cell to megabar pressures, thereby increasing our knowledge of planetary interiors.''
*1987:
Harmon Craig - ''For the masterful use of the isotopes of the elements from hydrogen through oxygen in attacking problems of cosmochemistry, mantle geochemistry, oceanography, and climatology.''
*1984:
Allan V. Cox
Allan Verne Cox (December 17, 1926 – January 27, 1987) was an American geophysicist. His work on dating geomagnetic reversals, with Richard Doell and Brent Dalrymple, made a major contribution to the theory of plate tectonics. Allan Cox won ...
- ''For his development of the geomagnetic-reversal time scale.''
*1981:
G. J. Wasserburg - ''For his work in the use of isotopes in studying geophysical problems of the solar system, ranging from the early solar nebula to rock formation on the moon and in the earth's mantle.''
*1978:
John Verhoogen John Verhoogen (born Jean Verhoogen, 1 February 1912, Brussels – 8 November 1993) was a Belgian-American geologist and geophysicist.
Verhoogen became ill at age 17 from poliomyelitis, which caused him problems throughout the rest of his life. Ne ...
- ''For his fundamental work on the thermodynamics of the earth's core and mantle, and his contributions to scholarship in the earth's sciences.''
*1975:
Drummond H. Matthews and
Fred J. Vine - ''For their discovery that the stripes in oceanic magnetic anomaly patterns are a datable record of the history of sea-floor spreading and continental drift, thus making one of the major contributions to the revolution in earth sciences now known as plate tectonics.''
*1972:
Hatten S. Yoder, Jr. - ''For his work on mineral systems under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature.''
See also
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List of geology awards
This list of geology awards is an index to articles on notable awards for geology, an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the ...
References
External links
Arthur L. Day Prize and LectureshipNational Academy of Sciences web site
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Geology awards
Awards established in 1972
Awards of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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