Alfred Lothar Wegener
1880-1930
German geophysicist whose theory of continental drift preceeded the current understanding of plate tectonics. Born in Berlin, the son of an orphanage director, Wegener ...
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Alfred Lothar Wegener
1880-1930
German Meteorologist and Geophysicist
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a meteorologist and geophysicist best known for his theory of continental drift, according to which Eart...
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Wegener, Alfred (1880-1930)
German meteorologist
Alfred Wegener was primarily a meteorologist who became much more famous for proposing the idea of continental drift. Decades after his death, the theo...
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The German meteorologist, Arctic explorer, and geophysicist Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930) is remembered for his theory of continental drift.Alfred Wegener son of an Evangelical preacher, was born ...
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Alfred Wegener is remembered as one of the world's foremost earth scientists for his idea that 200 million years ago all seven continents were part of a singular land mass that broke apart -- the theo...
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Bremerhaven, Germany (dpa) - German scientists are to fly an
airship from Norway across the North Pole to Canada to carry out the
first-ever all-the-way-across survey of the...
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Bremerhaven, Germany (dpa) - A mini-continent which was formerly
joined to India has been discovered deep under the southern oceans by
the world's most powerful ice research...
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Bremerhaven, Germany (dpa) - The ice in the Arctic Sea is
dramatically thinner in some places than six years ago, German
scientists said Thursday, but caution...
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Bremerhaven, Germany (dpa) - German scientists have successfully
tested part of a new tsunami early-warning system designed for use in
the Indian Ocean, a lea...
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Hamburg (dpa) - An expedition has revealed the first evidence of
biological changes under the sea caused by the collapse of ice
shelves in the Antarctic due to global warmin...
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Alfred Lothar Wegener
Wegener, Alfred (1880-1930)
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred L. Wegener
German airship to check thickness of Arctic ice
