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Wegener, Alfred Lothar

Born Nov. 1, 1880, in Berlin; died in late November 1930, in Greenland. German geophysicist. Professor at the University of Graz, 1924.

Wegener was a participant in research expeditions in Greenland in 1906-08 and 1912-13, and he led an expedition in 1929-30. His last expedition was undertaken to organize a year-round research station, Eismitte, in the center of Greenland, at an elevation of about 3,000 m. Returning from this expedition, Wegener perished on the ice. His main scientific works were on the thermodynamics of the atmosphere and on paleoclimatology. He was the author (1912) of tectonic hypotheses on the shift of continents.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Vozniknovenie materikov i okeanov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1925.
Termodinamika atmosfery. Moscow-Leningrad, 1935.

REFERENCES

Zalomanov, V. “Professor Al’fred Vegener.” Meteorologicheskii vestnik, 1931, nos. 5-8.
Posledniaia ekspeditsiia A. Vegenera v Grenlandiiu 1930-31. Leningrad, 1935. (Translated from German.)

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Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), photo taken probably in Marburg around 1910.

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Ending in ice; the revolutionary idea and tragic expedition of Alfred Wegener.

Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener

Contact: Paul Overduin, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research E-mail: poverduin@awi-potsdam.de

Conferences

Microbiologist Elisabeth Helmke from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany (above right) scrapes orange deposits from a Gakkel Ridge rock snatched up by Camper's grabber.

Intriguing discoveries

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"The objective of our experiment is to manipulate one point of the ocean in its natural context in order to understand and quantify the processes that characterise the ocean ecosystems," said professor Ulrich Bathmann of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, entrusted with the project alongside the National Oceanography Institute of India.

German ship conducts controversial experiment to reduce greenhouse gas