It’s International Women’s Day 2023, so the EGU Seismology Division would like to celebrate the life and work of singular seismic-wave spotter – Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), a Danish seismologist who discovered that the inner core was solid! Inge Lehmann grew up in a family of high aspirations, with several family members being politicians, scientists, and engineers. Educated in a p ...[Read More]
In Lehmann’s Terms – the Story of the Singular Seismic-Wave Spotter
Inge Lehmann in 1932 (National Library of Denmark) and her seismological discovery of the earth's inner core, from P' (Lehmann, 1936)