Alfred Wegener : science, exploration, and the theory of continental drift /
The author of the theory of continental drift, the direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics and one of the key scientific concepts of the past century, Wegener also made major contributions to geology, geophysics, astronomy, geodesy, atmospheric physics, meteorology and glaciology. Re...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The boy : Berlin and Brandenburg, 1880-1899
- 2. The student : Berlin-Heidelberg-Innsbruck-Berlin, 1899-1901
- 3. The astronomer : Berlin, 1901-1904
- 4. The aerologist : Lindenberg, 1905-1906
- 5. The polar meteorologist : Greenland, 1906
- 6. The Arctic explorer. 1, Greenland, 1907-1908
- 7. The atmospheric physicist. 1, Berlin and Marburg, 1908-1910
- 8. The atmospheric physicist. 2, Marburg, 1910
- 9. At a crossroads : Marburg, 1911
- 10. The theorist of continental drift. 1, Marburg, December 1911-February 1912
- 11. The theorist of continental drift. 2, Marburg, February-April 1912
- 12. The Arctic explorer. 2, Greenland, 1912-1913
- 13. The soldier : Marburg and "the field," 1913-1915
- 14. The meteorologist : "in the field," 1916-1918
- 15. The geophysicist : Hamburg, 1919-1920
- 16. From geophysicist to climatologist : Hamburg, 1920-1922
- 17. The paleoclimatologist : Hamburg, 1922-1924
- 18. The professor : Graz, 1924-1928
- 19. Theorist and Arctic explorer : Graz and Greenland, 1928-1929
- 20. The expedition leader : Graz and Greenland, 1929-1930
- Epilogue.