Alfred Lothar Wegener (/ ˈveɪɡənər /; [1] German: [ˈʔalfʁeːt ˈveːɡənɐ]; [2][3] 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar …

Feb 21, 2026 · Alfred Wegener (born November 1, 1880, Berlin, Germany—died November 1930, Greenland) was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who formulated the first complete …

Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift - the idea that Earth's continents move. Despite publishing a large body of compelling fossil and rock evidence for his theory between 1912 and …

Feb 8, 2001 · Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift - the idea that the Earth's continents move over hundreds of millions of years of geologic time - long before the idea was …

Alfred Wegener proposed that all of Earth’s continents were once joined together in a single massive landmass, and that they slowly drifted apart over millions of years. He called this idea continental …

During his life, Wegener made several key contributions to meteorology: he pioneered the use of balloons to track air circulation, and wrote a textbook that became standard throughout Germany. In …

One of the most important contributions to the development of plate tectonic theory was Alfred Wegener's 1915 publication of 'The origin of continents and oceans' which outlined his theory of …

Historian Christian Kehrt presents a short biographical profile of geologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener, with historic photographs. Wegener's diaries from his three Greenland expeditions …

Alfred Wegener developed the theory of continental drift and would probably be a geophysicist today. He studied physics, meteorology and astronomy before setting off on expeditions to Greenland.

Wegener was one of the first to realize that an understanding of how the Earth works required input and knowledge from all the earth sciences. Wegener's scientific vision sharpened in 1914 as he was …