Author:Alfred Wegener

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Alfred Wegener
(1880–1930)

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German meteorologist; known for developing the continental drift hypothesis (Kontinentalverschiebung), the basis of the theory of plate tectonics and modern geology

Works

“Die Alfonsinischen Tafeln für den Gebrauch eines modernen Rechners” [“The Alfonsine Tables for the Use of Modern Computers”] (dissertation) (1905)
Thermodynamik der Atmosphäre [Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere] (1911)
“Die Entstehung der Kontinente” [“The Origin of Continents”], in Dr. A. Petermann’s Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt 1912 p. 1 (pp. 185–195, 253–256, 305–308) (external scan)
“Die Entstehung der Kontinente” [“The Origin of Continents”], in Geologische Rundschau 3 (1912) (external scan)
Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (1915)
- The Origin of Continents and Oceans (1924) (J. G. A. Skerl, tr.)
Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa [Wind and Water Pants in Europe] (1917)
“Versuche zur Aufsturztheorie der Mondkrater” [“Experiments on the Impact Theory of Lunar Craters”] (1920)
Die Entstehung der Mondkrater [The Origin of Lunar Craters] (1921)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

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