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Discovery, Discovery, Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann

Discovery

Discovery

Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann

May 12, 2025

28 minutes

Available for over a year

From growing up in a progressive Denmark to studying mathematics at a gender-segregated Cambridge University, Inge Lehmann had to power through the shock of cultural change to pursue her love of mathematics. Whilst managing several seismological stations, Inge notices the peculiar readings in the data she was collecting. Was the Earth’s composition actually different to what the experts had thought?

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber tell the story of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann who used earthquakes to uncover the truth about the composition of the Earth’s inner core.

Presenters: Ella Hubber and Julia Ravey

Guest Speakers: Dr Lif Lund Jacobsen and Dr Trine Dahl-Jensen

Producers: Ella Hubber and Julia Ravey

Assistant producers: Sophie Ormiston, Anna Charalambou and Josie Hardy

Sound designer: Ella Roberts

Production co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano

Editor: Holly Squire

(Photo: Inge Lehmann Credit: Neuhaus, Even (6.2.1863-20.4.1946) /Royal Danish Library)