Alfred Lothar Wegener

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Noun1.Alfred Lothar Wegener - German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930)Alfred Lothar Wegener - German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930)
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Alfred Lothar Wegener propuso la teoria de la deriva continental en 1912.
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930; Figura 1) nacio en Berlin.
In 1912 the German geologist Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930) proposed that Africa and South America had indeed once formed a single landmass, which had broken in two, and that the two parts had then moved apart in a sort of continental drift.
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