Wegener, Alfred (1880–1930)

Alfred Lothar Wegener, a brilliant interdisciplinary scientist born in Berlin (Germany), was a meteorologist, geophysicist, and Arctic explorer who proposed the theory of “continental displacement,” or what later was called “continental drift.” According to this theory, the continents ...

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