Arthur L. Day Prize

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The Arthur L. Day Prize (Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship) is a price for Geosciences of the National Academy of Sciences . A series of lectures by the award winner is associated with the award. It is named after Arthur Louis Day .

There is also an Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America .

Award winners

Susan Solomon received the award in 2017.

Each with appreciation from the official laudation:

  • In 1972 , Schuyler had Yoder for his work on minerals under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature
  • 1975 Drummond Hoyle Matthews , Frederick Vine for discovering the magnetic stripe anomalies on the ocean floor as a time scale for the formation and plate tectonics of the ocean floor.
  • 1978 John Verhoogen for fundamental work on the thermodynamics of the earth's core and mantle
  • 1981 Gerald Joseph Wasserburg for his use of isotopes to study geophysical problems of the solar system, from the formation of the solar system to the formation of rocks on the moon and in the earth's mantle
  • 1984 Allan V. Cox for the development of the time scale for reversals of the earth's magnetic field
  • 1987 Harmon Craig for "masterful use of elements from hydrogen to oxygen in treating problems of cosmochemistry, mantle geochemistry, oceanography and climatology"
  • 1990 Ho-kwang Mao for the measurement of fundamental properties of elements and minerals under extreme conditions and the development of diamond high pressure cells up to the megabar region, whereby the knowledge of the conditions inside the earth was improved
  • 1993 Hiroo Kanamori for outstanding contributions to the physics of earthquake formation with applications to prediction
  • 1996 James G. Anderson for pioneering study of the abundance and chemistry of radicals in the stratosphere and human impact on the ozone layer
  • 1999 Sean Solomon for the analysis of seismological data for the tectonics of the lithosphere and the development of global tectonic models of the moon and the planets near the earth
  • 2002 Wallace Broecker for fundamental insights into the role of the oceans in the climate system
  • 2005 Herbert E. Huppert for pioneering work in geological hydrodynamics
  • 2008 Stanley R. Hart for establishing the new discipline of chemical geodynamics, the use of chemical signals and isotopes from rocks associated with the Earth's mantle to map and describe the dynamic evolution of the Earth's interior
  • 2011 R. Lawrence Edwards for the use of uranium thorium and stable isotope systems to quantify abrupt temperature changes over the past 30,000 to 500,000 years
  • 2014 Richard Alley for his contributions to the history of the climate through highly precise dating of ice cores and for the elucidation of the physical and chemical processes that determine the accumulation of ice and its movement in glaciers and ice streams
  • 2017 Susan Solomon for her three decades of leadership in atmospheric chemistry and climate change , and for using new optical techniques to demonstrate that chlorine and bromine - released by chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) - are gases that were responsible for the ozone hole over Antarctica, which was discovered in 1985.
  • 2020 Linda T. Elkins-Tanton for her work which combines geodynamic modeling, petrology, geochemistry and field studies to provide first order constraints and fundamental insights into planetary chemical differentiation processes.

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