Honours and Awards
He was awarded both the Wollaston Medal and the Penrose Medal in 1956. The Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union is named after him.
A crater on Mars has been named in his honour.
The Durham University Department of Earth Sciences' Arthur Holmes "Isotope Geology Laboratory". http://www.dur.ac.uk/geochem.www/group/arthurholmes.htm Arthur Holmes. is named after him, as is the students' Geology Society.
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