Arthur L. Day Medal

The Arthur L. Day Medal is a prize awarded by the Geological Society of America, established in 1948 by Arthur Louis Day for "outstanding distinction in contributing to geologic knowledge through the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geologic problems".

List of winners
Source: Geological Society of America • 2023 Isabel P. Montañez

• 2022  Timothy W. Lyons

• 2021  Katherine H. Freeman

• 2020  Ariel D. Anbar

• 2019  John W. Valley

• 2018  Jay Quade

• 2017  Neal R. Iverson

• 2016	Donald B. Dingwell

• 2015	Jerry X. Mitrovica

• 2014	Lisa Tauxe

• 2013	Richard W. 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 	Robert Stephen John 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

• 1979 	Walter M. Elsasser

• 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

• 1969 	Harold C. Urey

• 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 	Sir Edward C. Bullard

• 1958 	John Verhoogen

• 1957 	Hugo Benioff

• 1956 	Alfred O.C. Nier

• 1955 	Earl Ingerson

• 1954 	Marion King Hubbert

• 1953 	John Frank Schairer

• 1952 	Sterling Hendricks

• 1951 	Martin J. Buerger

• 1950 	Francis Birch

• 1949 	William Maurice Ewing

• 1948 	George W. Morey