{"id":37,"date":"2025-08-12T01:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:32:27","slug":"the-scientist-who-cracked-through-the-earths-core-inge-lehman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/the-scientist-who-cracked-through-the-earths-core-inge-lehman\/","title":{"rendered":"The scientist who cracked through the earth\u2019s core- Inge Lehman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is difficult to judge the mystery of our universe and our planet earth is also highly mysterious. One Danish Scientist named Inge Lehmann was curious about the mother earth. She was an amazing scientist and received a degree in mathematics. Later in the years, she became the world-famous earthquake researcher. She declared the fact about the earth\u2019s core that it is solid, not liquid as assumed previously.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Inge Lehmann<\/strong> is very inspiring for any of the female research scholars or scientists. Her passion for science made her an inspiration and she always managed to overcome all the obstacles in her life.  She lived in an earthquake zone where she worked dedicatedly for many years. Because of her efforts, we all came to know about a very mysterious yet interesting fact about the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Inge\nLehmann<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Inge Lehmann<\/strong> was born in a small city Copenhagen, Denmark<\/strong> in the year\n1888. Becoming a scientist for a female back in those days was not an easy\ntask. She was lucky to have progressive parents and they themselves were\nscience inclined. Inge Lehmann went to a co-education school where she explored\nall her science content with the help of experiments.  While facing difficulties and sexism, she\nstood tall with her efforts and her contribution to science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the\npost-graduation, she began her work on seismology. She started working as an\nassistant in the \u201cRoyal Danish Geodetic Institute\u201d which was one the best of\nits kind. Here, she got the opportunity to work in Greenland on the project of\nmonitoring seismometers. This golden chance changed her life forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seismology and its fact<\/strong> As we know, Seismology <\/strong>is the medium to study the earthquakes and all the other events connected to the movements under the earth. The field of seismology was not that advanced at that time but Inge collected vast data about earth\u2019s innards. Inge Lehmann was continuously working on a similar theory about earth\u2019s core but her data was not supporting the conventional thought of liquid core. Being a chief of the Danish Geodetic Institute<\/strong>, she started picking the no common ideas and performed many tests to support the theory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the year 1929, some seismographers in Europe found waves from an earthquake in New Zealand and they collected the data from it.  She discovered the core concept of earthquake wave travel path and realized that to make it possible earth\u2019s core can\u2019t be liquid. Inge Lehmann<\/strong> presumed the earth\u2019s core should be solid rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legacy of\nInge Lehman<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sooner her\nfellow scientists realized that her theory was right and that has inspired many\npeople across the world.  Inge Lehmann\nwas a true pioneer in the male-dominated science world and her discovery\nchanged the entire theory about the earth\u2019s core. In the year 1936, her theory\nand papers on earth\u2019s core entirely changed the views of the science community.\nInge Lehmann was a legendary herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is difficult to judge the mystery of our universe and our planet earth is also highly mysterious. One Danish Scientist named Inge Lehmann was curious about the mother earth. She was an amazing scientist and received a degree in mathematics. Later in the years, she became the world-famous earthquake researcher. She declared the fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}