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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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List of icebreakers (section Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
"Polarstern-Neubau: Auftrag für deutschen Forschungseisbrecher vergeben". Alfred-Wegener-Institut (in German). 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024....
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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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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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and philosopher Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Arctic and Antarctic (1982–1995). Name proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name...
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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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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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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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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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