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the meteorologist who said the continents go for a walk, and got laughed at until the ocean floor proved him right.
means alfred wegener, the german scientist who proposed continental drift in 1912, arguing the continents were once joined and slowly drifted apart.
from born 1880 in berlin, trained in astronomy but obsessed with weather and ice; noticed south america and africa fit like puzzle pieces and that matching fossils and rock strata appeared on both sides of the atlantic.
rejected decadesgeologists dismissed him until the 1960s seafloor spreading data
died on iceperished in greenland in 1930 during a weather expedition
no mechanismhe guessed drift right but the physics behind it wrong
vindicated posthumouslyplate tectonics confirmed his idea 30 years after death
for instance
greenland expeditions — three trips there, the last one killed him at age 50
continental drift theory — published in the origin of continents and oceans, 1915