Inge Lehmann: Discovering the In’s and Out’s of the Core
Earth’s interior is another mysterious place on our planet. We can’t see it; we can’t travel to it, we can’t drill to it, so how do we know what’s down there? Part of that answer is seismic data and very smart people. One of those very smart people was another of our favorite female geologists, Inge Lehmann, a Danish geophysicist who first differentiated between the outer and inner core.
![mirkokosmos:
“Inge Lehmann [1888 - 1993]
Inge Lehmann was a Danish Seismologist who discovered the Earth’s inner core. In 1936 she postulated from existing seismic data that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but that an inner core...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/97f17cc83b9f9ed838524f4b26d7aabe/tumblr_no9eq1t4Ab1qd479ro1_400.gifv)
Inge Lehmann [1888 - 1993]
Inge Lehmann was a Danish Seismologist who discovered the Earth’s inner core. In 1936 she postulated from existing seismic data that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists, which has physical properties that are different from those in the outer core. This conclusion was quickly accepted by seismologists, who up to this time had not been able to propose a workable hypothesis for the observation that the P-wave created by earthquakes slowed down when it reached certain areas of the inner Earth.
“the first time we met, we hated each other." "no, you didn’t hate me, i hated you. the second time we met, you didn’t even remember me” “i did too, i remembered you. the third time we met, we became friends.” “we were friends for a long time.” “and then we weren’t.” “and then we fell in love.”
nolanramsaynorth-deactivated201:
“I want to be remembered as a damn good entertainer; nothing specatular.
A good entertainer who made people enjoy themselves and made them laugh a little bit. ‘He was a nice guy. He did pretty good and we love him.’”
June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995
