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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Köppen's student Alfred Wegener. Marie's sister Sophie and her children moved in with the Köppens in 1888. Köppen, Wladimir and Wegener, Alfred (1924): The...
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    Kurt Wegener (3 April 1878 – 29 February 1964) was a German meteorologist and polar explorer. He was the brother of Alfred Wegener and the cousin of Paul...
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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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    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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  • "Polarstern-Neubau: Auftrag für deutschen Forschungseisbrecher vergeben". Alfred-Wegener-Institut (in German). 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024....
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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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    teams but as part of a multi-sport club. Bremerhaven is home to the Alfred Wegener Institute, a national research institute which is concerned with maritime...
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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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    and philosopher Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German...
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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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    mid-ocean ridges are located away from the center of other ocean basins. Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912. He stated: "the Mid-Atlantic...
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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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    Air Kenn Borek Air  China Polar Research Institute of China  Germany Alfred Wegener Institute United Kingdom Bell Geospace  United States United States...
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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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  • as polar and deep-sea researcher Professor Antje Boetius, from the Alfred Wegener Institute, and Dr Jon Copley, professor of Ocean Exploration from the...
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    broadleaf forests. The meteorologist (and discoverer of continental drift) Alfred Wegener described hair ice on wet dead wood in 1918, assuming some specific...
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    protocols (OAI-PMH, Web Catalog Service). PANGAEA is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven...
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    through his observational telescopic drawings. In 1924, geophysicist Alfred Wegener used illustrations to visually demonstrate the origin of the continents...
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    activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Earlier theories by Alfred Wegener and Alexander du Toit of continental drift postulated that continents...
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    scientists to have the clearest water of any sea. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, on finding a Secchi disc visible at a depth of 80 metres...
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    Wegener ... proposed instead a grand vision of drifting continents and widening seas to explain the evolution of Earth's geography. Alfred Wegener (1966)...
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