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    Alfred Lothar Wegener (/ˈveɪɡənər/; German: [ˈʔalfʁeːt ˈveːɡənɐ]; 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist...
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    The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)...
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  • Ampferer. The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in his 1915 publication, "The Origin of Continents and Oceans". However...
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    Alfred Wegener described what he called continental drift, an idea that culminated fifty years later in the modern theory of plate tectonics. Wegener...
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  • Wegener may refer to: 29227 Wegener, a main-belt asteroid Wegener (lunar crater) Wegener (Martian crater) Wegener Range, an Antarctic mountain range Mount...
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    contiguous land mass was hypothesised, with corroborating evidence, by Alfred Wegener, the originator of the scientific theory of continental drift, in three...
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    geographer Alfred Wegener and the meteorologist Kurt Wegener were his cousins, and the physicist Prof. Peter P. Wegener was his son. Wegener's last film...
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    also known as the Wegener Expedition, was an expedition to Greenland in 1930–1931. It was led by German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had...
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    acquainted with paleoclimatology as well. In 1924, he and his son-in-law Alfred Wegener published a paper called Die Klimate der Geologischen Vorzeit (The climates...
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    Köppen and his son-in-law Alfred Wegener in 1924. In September of that year, he attended the lecture given by Alfred Wegener at Congress of German Naturalist...
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