The Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "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.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1972 | Hatten Yoder Jr. |
| 1975 | Drummond Matthews and Fred Vine |
| 1978 | John Verhoogen |
| 1981 | Gerald J. Wasserburg |
| 1984 | Allan V. Cox |
| 1987 | Harmon Craig |
| 1990 | Ho-kwang Mao |
| 1993 | Hiroo Kanamori |
| 1996 | James G. Anderson |
| 1999 | Sean Solomon |
| 2002 | Wallace S. Broecker |
| 2005 | Herbert Huppert |
| 2008 | Stanley R. Hart |
| 2011 | R. Lawrence Edwards |
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