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Alfred Wegener, portrait (1920)
Portrait of Alfred Wegener at age 30 (photo: 1920).
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880 – 1930) was a German geophysicist and polar researcher, who is best known for his (now fully verified) theory of continental drift. In 1912 Wegener published his first article on continental drift. In 1915 he published the first version of his major work The Origin of Continents and Oceans, with the final, 4th edition printed in 1929.
Wegener
joined several expeditions to Greenland to study polar air circulation
before the existence of the jet stream was accepted. Expedition
participants took the first known ice cores on a moving Arctic glacier.
Wegener died of exposure while in the field in Greenland in 1930.
References:
Wegener, Alfred 1912. Die Entstehung der Kontinente (The formation of continents) Geologische Rundschau. Zeitschrift für allgemeine Geologie, dritter Band.
Wegener, Alfred 1929 . Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (The Origin of Continents and Oceans) (4th ed.). Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Akt.
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