Arthur Louis Day

Arthur Louis Day

Arthur Louis Day (30 October, 1869 – 2 March, 1960)cite web|url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=570&page=27|title=Arthur Louis Day|last=Abelson|first=Philip H.|date=1975|work=Biographical Memoirs, vol. XLVII|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|pages=p.27|accessdate=2008-05-25] was an American geological physicist. He was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Day established the Arthur L. Day Medal [http://www.geosociety.org/aboutus/awards/aboutAwards.htm#day] , for "outstanding distinction in contributing to geologic knowledge through the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geologic problems", in 1948.

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