Alfred Lothar Wegener (/ˈveɪɡənər/; German: [ˈʔalfʁeːt ˈveːɡənɐ]; 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist...
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The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)...
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Ampferer. The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in his 1915 publication, "The Origin of Continents and Oceans". However...
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Alfred Wegener described what he called continental drift, an idea that culminated fifty years later in the modern theory of plate tectonics. Wegener...
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geographer Alfred Wegener and the meteorologist Kurt Wegener were his cousins, and the physicist Prof. Peter P. Wegener was his son. Wegener's last film...
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contiguous land mass was hypothesised, with corroborating evidence, by Alfred Wegener, the originator of the scientific theory of continental drift, in three...
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Wegener may refer to: 29227 Wegener, a main-belt asteroid Wegener (lunar crater) Wegener (Martian crater) Wegener Range, an Antarctic mountain range Mount...
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acquainted with paleoclimatology as well. In 1924, he and his son-in-law Alfred Wegener published a paper called Die Klimate der Geologischen Vorzeit (The climates...
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German Greenland Expedition (redirect from Wegener Expedition)
also known as the Wegener Expedition, was an expedition to Greenland in 1930–1931. It was led by German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had...
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Köppen and his son-in-law Alfred Wegener in 1924. In September of that year, he attended the lecture given by Alfred Wegener at Congress of German Naturalist...
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Maturilli, Maturilli. "Polar Stratospheric Clouds Above Spitsbergen". Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Archived from the original...
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Wegener (April 3, 1878 in Berlin - February 29, 1964 in Munich) was a German meteorologist and polar explorer. He was the brother of Alfred Wegener and...
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in Central America, a conclusion that would provide a foundation for Alfred Wegener when he proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912. Some recent...
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on the day of his marriage to Charlotte Wegener, daughter of the eminent explorer and scholar Alfred Wegener. After returning to Europe in 1952, Harrer...
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Air Kenn Borek Air China Polar Research Institute of China Germany Alfred Wegener Institute United States United States Forest Service Argentina Argentine...
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The Wegener–Bergeron–Findeisen process (after Alfred Wegener, Tor Bergeron and Walter Findeisen [de]), (or "cold-rain process") is a process of ice crystal...
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Polarstern (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany...
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Argentinian Carlini Base with shared logistics. It is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in cooperation with the Netherlands...
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and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. anonymous, nd, Laptev Sea Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research – Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam...
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Antarctic Expedition 1956 50 50 25 +6 −11.3 Neumayer III Atka Bay Germany Alfred Wegener Institute 2009 60 60 9 0 −16.0 Novolazarevskaya Queen Maud Land Russia...
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Polar 3 was a Dornier 228 owned and operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute that was shot down south of Dakhla, Western Sahara by guerrillas of the Polisario...
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German Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) had proposed in his continental drift theory that land masses moved great distances over the Earth's history. Wegener was...
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Members of the Helmholtz Association are: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung...
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Hydrographic Office. The name was proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and was...
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led by Alfred de Quervain crosses Greenland by dog-sled 1912–1913: Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land – Johan Peter Koch and Alfred Wegener cross the...
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and philosopher Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German...
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and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. anonymous, nd, Laptev Sea Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - Research Unit Potsdam, Potsdam...
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List of icebreakers (section Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
Group AS. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021. "New Polarstern". Alfred-Wegener-Institut. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2023. "DES Stephan Jantzen"...
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1880 – Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet (d. 1954) 1880 – Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930) 1881 – Perikles Ioannidis...
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the central Indian Ocean were amongst the earliest examples cited by Alfred Wegener as evidence for his continental drift theory. Ridge–plume interactions...
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