Wegener's frustration and long delay in gaining a University position in his native Germany, he accepted a professorship at the After a long but unsuccessful search for a A couple of years before his death, Wegener finally achieved one of his Meddling in their field, Wegener did not back down but worked even harder Leading geologists, who regarded him as a mere meteorologist and outsider
Wegener spent much of his adult life vigorously defending his theory of continentalĭrift, which was severely attacked from the start and never gainedĪcceptance in his lifetime. Several meteorologic expeditions to Greenland. Wegener obtained his doctorate in planetary astronomy in 1905 but soonīecame interested in meteorology during his lifetime, he participated in Origin of Continents and Oceans) published in 1915. During his long convalescence, Wegener was able to fullyĭevelop his ideas into the Theory of Continental Drift, detailed inĪ book titled Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (in German, The Lines of geologic and paleontologic evidence that these two continents Unlike the others, to support his theory Wegener sought out many other Like others before him, Wegener had been struckīy the remarkable fit of the coastlines of South America and Africa. While bed-ridden, he had ample time to develop an idea that had Military hospital from an injury suffered as a German soldier during World Wegener's scientific vision sharpened in 1914 as he was recuperating in a Works required input and knowledge from all the earth sciences. Was one of the first to realize that an understanding of how the Earth Scientific world was his ability to weave seemingly dissimilar, unrelatedįacts into a theory, which was remarkably visionary for the time. His theory forms the base on which the theory of sea floor spreading and plate tectonics was later developed principally from geochronologic and palaeomagneticĮvidence Perhaps Alfred Wegener's greatest contribution to the
Wegener died in Greenland on his third expedition in 1930, covered by an avalanche. Toit, a South African geologist considerably developed on this and suggested an orogenic belt called SAMFRAU across the Gondwanaland. His book die erstehung der kontinente und ozeana in German was first translated into English in 1928 and A L du His thesis was first based on the matching coast lines either side of the Atlantic ocean but later he also showed geological and palaeontological similarities on either side. Alfred Wegner, a glaciologist and a climatologist first advocated that the continents (although Isacc Newton is really credited with a suggestion to this effect based on his observations on variation of gravitational constant) were first grouped in a single landmass called Pangaea which split up to give rise to present day continents and oceans.
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