-
unknown details of his childhood. age 1-17
-
Alfred Wegener was born to his two parents, Anna and Richard Wegener in Berlin,Germany
-
Wegener graduates with a P.H.D. in astronomy from the University of Berlin.
-
Wegener took an expedition to Greenland to study polar weather. (one if his interests)
-
Wegener began teaching at the University of Marburg in Germany.
-
He gained an interest in the ancient history of the Earth's continents and their placement.
he atarted to observe that the eastern coast of South America and the northwestern coast of Africa looked like they were once connected. -
Wegener found several scientific documents that said there were identical fossils of plants and animals on each of these continents and he hypothesized that all of the Earth's continents were at one time connected into one large supercontinent.
-
He revealed his idea of "continental displacement" which would later become known as continental drift to explain how the continents moved toward and away from one another throughout the Earth's history.
-
Alfred goes to widen his knowledge and study in Greenland.
-
Wegener married Elsa Koppen, daughter of meteorologist Wladimir Peter Koppen.
-
He was wounded twice and put into the army's weather forcasting center for the rest of the war.
-
Wegener published his most famous work, The Origin of Continents and Oceans as a continuation of his 1912 theory.
-
-
Wegener was a professor of meteorology and geophysics at the University of Graz in Austria.
-
Alfred introduced the idea of Pangaea, a Greek term that means "all lands," to describe the supercontinent that existed on the Earth millions of years ago.
-
A. Wegener takes his last expedition to Greenland but this time not to study.
-
Wegener took part in his last expedition to Greenland the set up a winter weather station that would monitor the jet stream in the upper atmosphere over the northern pole, but on the return trip, Wegener became lost and it is believed that he died in November 1930.
-
Wegener leaves his wife, but shortly she dies to but of heart failure.
