Learn about amazing accomplishments of Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, the longest-lived woman scientist as of 2017. This is an excerpt from article titled The Ultimate Inge Lehmann Biography You'll Want To Share originally published on Humoropedia.com.
Inge Lehmann Accomplishments Inge Lehmann achieved many accomplishments during her long and respectable career as a seismologist and geophysicist. Aside from her geophysical discoveries, she helped found the Danish Geophysical Society, which is still in operation today. She also helped establish several seismological stations in Greenland during a time when women did not travel to or work in this part of the globe. Along with helping to set up the stations, she also prepared the instruments that would be used to study the earth’s core under the Arctic region. Lehman additionally developed numerous models of the world that helped scientists better understand P waves, or Pressure Waves, as well as S waves, or shear waves. Her creation of two and three-dimensional geophysical models and explanation of theories that scientists commonly struggled with led to her peers calling her a master of black art. Lehmann never officially retired from her seismological work. She continued her studies long after the point in her life when other people her age would retire. She celebrated her 100th birthday at the Geodetic Institute, which was her former employer. This talented seismologist wrote her last scientific article when she was 99 years old. The article is entitled “Seismology in the Days of Old." It was published in 1987.