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Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

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  • kasperni
    She is not a household name in Denmark. But we do have a big mural of her, here in Copenhagen [1].[1] https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/99...
  • perigrin
    All of modern geology stands upon her work.
  • wasting_time
  • tekla
    She was hardly overlooked, she won many honours for her work during her time.> This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
  • pfdietz
    > It explained how the Earth generates the magnetic field that protects the planet from cosmic radiation,Our protection from cosmic radiation is mostly due to Earth's thick atmosphere, not its magnetic field.