Alfred Wegener
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| Gender | Male |
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| Date of birth | November 1,1880 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Berlin |
| Germany | |
| Died | Greenland |
| November 1930 | |
| Greenland | |
| Spouse | Else Koppen Wegener |
| Job | Geologist |
| Meteorologist | |
| Astronomer | |
| Researcher | |
| Climatologist | |
| Geophysicist | |
| Known for | Continental drift |
| Children | Hanna Charlotte Wegener |
| Sophie Käte Wegener | |
| Hilde Wegener | |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Philipps-University Marburg |
| Full name | Alfred Lothar Wegener |
| Books | The Origin of Continents and Oceans |
| A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | |
| Academic advisor | Wilhelm Julius Foerster |
| Julius Bauschinger | |
| Parents | Anna Wegener |
| Richard Wegener | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 466621 |
Alfred Wegener Life story
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.
The Antarctic and Arctic sounds rarely heard before
... " We probably think we know what the poles sound like but often that is imagined, " adds Dr Whittaker, who works at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany...
Antarctica: Southern Ocean floor mapped in greatest ever detail
... " You have to realise just what the change from 60 degrees to 50 degrees means; we ve more than doubled the area of the chart, " said Dr Boris Dorschel from Germany s Alfred Wegener Institute...
Denman Glacier: Deepest point on land found in Antarctica
... Co-worker Dr Emma Smith from Germany s Alfred Wegener Institute uses this analogy: Imagine if you poured a bunch of treacle on to a flat surface and watched how it flowed outwards...
Climate change: ice-breaker Polarstern begins-year-old Arctic drift
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Climate change: the Polarstern departs for 'largest' Arctic expedition
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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
... In the laboratory at Germany s Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven they discovered far more contaminating particles than they d expected...
Alfred Wegener Photos
