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Categories: 20th-century German male writers, German geophysicists, Explorers of the Arctic, 20th-century German geologists, Biography with signature
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Wegener  Alfred Lothar Wegener  Alfred Wegener  Alfred wegner  Alfred L. Wegener
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German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930) WordNet 3.0
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German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher. Wikipedia
German geologist who originated the theory of continental drift Wikipedia Disambiguation
German meteorologist, geologist and astronomer Wikidata
IS A
geophysicist
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ARCHIVES AT
ETH Zurich University Archives
AWARD RECEIVED
Carl-Ritter-Medal
CAUSE OF DEATH
heart failure
CONFLICT
World War I
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Hohenzollern empire
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
Hamburg Biographies
Obalky knih.cz
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Julius Bauschinger
Wilhelm Julius Foerster
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Bruno Eckardt
EDUCATED AT
Humboldt University of Berlin
Köllnisches Gymnasium
EMPLOYER
University of Tartu
University of Graz
University of Marburg
FIELD OF WORK
geology
GIVEN NAME
Alfred
Lothar
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
German
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Schwarzburgbund
NOTABLE WORK
The Origin of continents and oceans
OCCUPATION
astronomer
geographer
geologist
physicist
climatologist
+3 relations
PARTICIPANT IN
Denmark expedition
PLACE OF BIRTH
Berlin
PLACE OF DEATH
Greenland
POSITION HELD
professor
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Walter Findeisen
WORK LOCATION
Marburg
WRITING LANGUAGE
German
WordNet 3.0
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Wegener, Alfred Lothar Wegener
Open English WordNet
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Alfred Wegener, Wegener, Alfred Lothar Wegener
Wikipedia
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Alfred Wegener
Wikidata
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Alfred Wegener
Wikipedia Redirections
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Alfred L. Wegener, Alfred Lothar Wegener, Alfred Wegner, Alfred wegner, Wegeners theory
Wikidata Alias
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Alfred Lothar Wegener

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