Alfred Lothar Wegener , 1880-1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of the aeronautical observatory at Lindenberg; was a professor of geophysics and meteorology at Hamburg from 1919 to 1924; was professor of meteorology at the Univ. of Graz from 1924 to 1930; and went on four polar expeditions (1906-08, 1912-13, 1929, and 1930) to test his meteorological and geophysical theories. He is known for his theory of continental drift , set forth in his Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (1915; tr. The Origin of Continents and...
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