Inge Lehmann
MAY 13, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.030964
Google’s latest doodle honors the birthday in 1888 of geophysicist Inge Lehmann. In the 1930s seismologists were puzzled by the fact that P waves generated by earthquakes slowed down when they passed through certain regions of the inner Earth. 1936 Lehmann proposed an explanation, which was quickly accepted: Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere; rather, it consists of an inner core and an outer core.
Date in History: 13 May 1888
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