Alfred Wegener
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Updated: 3 Nov 2022
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Alfred Wegener was bornbegan university in Berlin in 1899,1906, the Wegener brothers would have won the record for the longest continuous balloon flight ever: 52.5 hours in April of that year.1911 Wegener learned that fossils of several species were present in both Brazil and western Africa.In 1912, age 32, Wegener delivered talks at German universities and published two papers proposing that Earth’s continents moved.On an unknown day in mid-November 1930, Alfred Wegener died on his fourth expedition to Greenland. He was 50 years old.Periods
Danmark scientific expedition to Greenland, the world’s largest island, which took place from 1906 to 1908.Grouping
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