Alfred Wegener

From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Jump to: navigation, search

This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Talk
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
 
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Alfred_Wegener&printable=yes
This is a draft article, under development and not meant to be cited but you can help to improve it. These unapproved articles are subject to a disclaimer.

Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) was a German physicist, meteorologist and explorer who developed one of the first theories of plate tectonics.

Wegener completed his PhD in planetary astronomy in 1905 but became strongly interested in meteorology. His theories on continental drift were published in 1915 in The Origin of Continents and Oceans. This provided a rational account of his theory however was never accepted by other meterologists in his lifetime.

Evidence to support Wegener's theory did not occur until 1960, when Harry Hess proposed the theory of sea-floor spreading. The exploration techniques that had developed by this stage would confirm Wegener's theory as well.

Retrieved from "http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener"
Views
Personal tools