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

(nytimes.com)

25 points | by Hooke 3 days ago

4 comments

kasperni 1 hour ago
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...
wasting_time 1 hour ago
https://archive.is/jTCRB
tekla 25 minutes ago
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.
perigrin 1 hour ago
All of modern geology stands upon her work.