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Wegener

Alfred . 1880--1930, German meteorologist: regarded as the originator of the theory of continental drift
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Reinosa eventually admitted making up the story and using a knife to cut the two holes in his shirt, Wegener said.
Wegener, who is currently deputy president of FERMA, will become its president at the 2019 FERMA Risk Management Forum, which will take place in Berlin from Nov.
Leivick's Der goylem, a dramatic poem in eight scenes published in 1921 in New York, one year after Paul Wegener's third golem film was released.
Wegener arrived at the Peenemunde missile development center in May 1943.
An American contemporary of Wegener who did belong to the geologists' guild, however, suffered a comparable rejection.
Rupprecht, "An unusual manifestation of Wegener's granulomatosis in a 4-year-old girl," Pediatric Neurology, vol.
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a rare autoimmune disease, previously known as Wegener's granulomatosis, characterized by a pauci-immune necrotizing vasculitis of small- and medium-sized vessels that in typical cases involve the upper and lower respiratory tracts and the kidneys [1], although other limited involvements can be seen in some patients [2, 3].
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