This scientist discovered earth’s inner and outer cores.
- Isaac Newton
- Charles Lydell
- Ernest Rutherford
- Inge Lehmann
Daily Quiz for March 2, 2016
This scientist discovered earth’s inner and outer cores.
This scientist discovered earth’s inner and outer cores.
Inge Lehmann. In 1936 she published a paper stating earth had a solid inner core surrounded by a liquid outer core separated by what was later named the Lehmann Discontinuity. Lehmann was head of the department of seismology at Denmark’s Geoditical Institute.