Inge Lehmann
Scientist, Deceased Person
1888 – 1993
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Who was Inge Lehmann?
Inge Lehmann ForMemRS, was a Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core. In 1936 she argued, correctly, that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.
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