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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Edmond Halley, Milutin Milankovi, Inge Lehmann, Erich von Drygalski, Alfred Wegener, Andrew Lowe, Peter Tertzakian, Friedrich Hopfner, John Tuzo Wilson, Dan McKenzie, Syed Mahmood Naqvi, Andrija Mohorovi i, David Strangway, Vincent Courtillot, Michael Schoenberg, Kin-Yip Chun, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Keith Edward Bullen, Andrew Long, Carmen Gaina, Edward A. Irving, Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, Pierre Bouguer, Bernard Chouet, Mario Giovinetto, Kamal Al-Yahya, Louis Moresi, Adam Dziewonski, Keith Runcorn, Gustav Herglotz, Karl Ledersteger, Friedrich Seifert, Emil Wiechert, G. Michael Purdy, Julius Bartels, Annibale Ricco, Bahram Akasheh, Lawrence Morley, Vladimir Belousov, Motonori Matuyama, Panayotis Varotsos, Friedrich Burmeister, Lianxing Wen, List of geophysicists, Dimitri Nalivkin, Xavier Le Pichon, Heinrich von Ficker, Bernard Brunhes, Winfried Otto Schumann, Vassilis Papazachos, Heinz Kohnen, Jon Claerbout, Yves Fortier, Masayuki Kikuchi, Stjepan Mohorovi i, Jean Morlet, William Curry, Detlef Quadfasel. Excerpt: Alfred Lothar Wegener (November 1, 1880 - November 1930) was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist. He is most notable for his theory of continental drift (), proposed in 1912, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth. However, Wegener was unable to demonstrate a mechanism for continental drift, which, combined with his mostly circumstantial evidence, meant that his hypothesis was not accepted until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries provided evidence of continental drift. On November 1, 1880, Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin during the time of the German Empire. Wegener attended the in his home town. After he had finished school he studied physics, astronomy and meteorology at the (today Humboldt University), Berlin. In ...
