Google celebrates 127th birthday of seismologist Inge Lehmann (video)

 May 13, 2015 - 09:15 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google has created one of its trademark doodles to celebrate what would have been the 127th birthday of seismologist Inge Lehmann, who discovered the Earth's core, the Mirror says.

The moving doodle depicts the Earth split into two with the core shining brightly from inside.

Lehmann was born in Copenhagen in 1888 and studied mathematics at the University of Copenhagen and University of Cambridge.

In 1936 she postulated from existing data that the Earth's core is not a single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists, which has physical properties that are different from those in the outer core.

She became famous among the foremost authorities on earthquakes, living in a country that has no history of seismic activity.

In 1971, Lehmann was awarded the highest honor of the American Geophysical Union, the William Bowie medal in 1971.

At the time, she was described as “the master of a black art for which no amount of computerizing is likely to be a complete substitute.”