How did alfred wegener die

Alfred Wegener pointed out already in the possibility, that the continents were once one single continent — and tried to proof his hypothesis from that time on.

10 interesting facts about alfred wegener

The proof: In the middle of the sixties seismological investigations show that the earth owns only one thin firm crust. On 6 January a spectacle of one man against the world took place at the annual meeting of the Geological Association in Frankfurt am Main. That was the day year-old meteorologist Alfred Wegener gave his talk on the formation of the oceans and continents and in the process shook the foundations of accepted doctrine.

On the following pages you will find out, among other things, how Alfred Wegener arrived at his theory back then and what young geologists today can learn from him. Alfred Lothar Wegener was born in in Berlin in a pastor's family. After successful high school graduation he studied from to physics, meteorology and astronomy in Berlin, Heidelberg and Innsbruck.

In he was conferred a doctorate in astromomy by Julius Bauschinger at the Friedrich's Wilhelm University of Berlin. He found his first employment in the same year as an assistant in the aeronautic observatory Lindenberg near Beeskow. From to he went as a participant of the Danish expedition under the direction of Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen on his first Greenland journey.

After his return he became an assistant lecturer for meteorology, practical astronomy and cosmic physics at the Philipps University of Marburg. At the beginning of he introduced to the public for the first time his considerations for the continental movement.

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During the years from to Wegener took part for the second time in an expedition to Greenland. After the wedding the pair moved to Marburg. At the beginning of the First World War Wegener was drawn as a reserve officer immediately, fought at the west front and was found after two times wound active service-unsuitable.