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

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...

All of modern geology stands upon her work.

https://archive.is/jTCRB

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.

> 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.