The Scientist Who First Theorized That Earth Had an Inner Core. Oh, and the scientist was a woman.

Inge Lehmann 

Google posted a doodle in honor of the birthday of Inge Lehman, who theorized the existence of the Earth's inner core. She. Was. Awesome.

I don't want to discount her amazing findings and life work, but I am very annoyed that we have to celebrate women who were brilliant scientists, theorists, whateverists. I am annoyed because there should be many women in the sciences. So many that we do not have to point it out. Let's get the girls started on the sciences early and nurture their abilities. 

My pal Sophia Yen is a co-founder of SheHeroes, an organization that provides videos of accomplished women in STEM. Check it out.

From Wikipedia:

Inge Lehmann ForMemRS (May 13, 1888 – February 21, 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who postulated the existence of an Earth's inner core.[2][3] In 1936, she theorized from existing seismic data an inner core with physical properties distinct from the outer core's and that Earth's core is not a single molten sphere. Seismologists, who had not been able to propose a workable hypothesis for the observation that the P-wave created by earthquakes slowed down when it reached certain areas of the inner Earth, quickly accepted her conclusion.

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