Alfred Wegener
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title:
Alfred Wegener
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Alfred Lothar Wegener 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 continental drift hypothesis by suggesting in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth. His hypothesis was not accepted by mainstream geology until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeo
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German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener
date created:
2002-11-10T06:48:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T10:52:40Z
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