Alfred Wegener
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Alfred Wegener was a German scientist who studied climate and Earth's physical properties in the early 1900s. He is remembered for proposing the theory of continental drift, the idea that Earth's continents move across the planet over time, which fundamentally changed how scientists understand the structure and history of our world.
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- Born
- 1880-11-01
- Died
- 1930-11
- Works
- 23
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- Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane
- Mit Motorboot und Schlitten in Grönland
- Physik der Erde, ...
- Die Alfonsinischen Tafeln für den Gefrauch eines modernen Rechners
- Zur Kenntnis der Arsinsäuren und Stibinsäuren der Pyridinreihe
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Alfred Lothar Wegener (/ˈveɪɡənər/; German: [ˈʔalfʁeːt ˈveːɡənɐ]; 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.
During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered as the originator of the continental drift hypothesis by suggesting in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth (German: Kontinentalverschiebung).
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