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Alfred Lothar Wegener By Alex Burke February 15, 2006http://www.ucmp.berkele y.edu/tectonics/pangaea big

Alfred Wegener’s Life

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Born: November 1, 1880 Died: November 2 or 3, 1930 Born in Berlin, Germany Died in Greenland He died when he was fifty years old.

Studies he was involved in Meteorology Weather Balloons   Astronomy                

http://encarta.msn.com/media_1500605/Alfred_Wegener. html Alfred Wegener sends up a weather balloon on June 17 1907 at Danmarks Havn, the base camp of the 'Danmark Expedition'. Northeast Greenland

Contributions Created Theory of Continental Drift Discovered that the earth used to be a single continent called Pangaea Found fossil evidence supporting Pangaea

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Alfred Wegener’s Awards and Medals

The Alfred Wegener Award: Given out to someone who has made a significant contribution to scientific and technical advancement at the University of Aberdeen The Alfred Wegener Medal: Given out to someone for scientific advancement (Mainly people bringing the Earth Sciences together in order to solve http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/Wegene geodynamic problems) at the

References http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/wegener .html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/archive/ 2004/pr1408.hti http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/EUG/Medal.html http://www.cat.cc.md.us/courses/eas101/unit3/ evidence.html http://www.dpc.dk/PolarPhotos/Exhibit_6.html http://encarta.msn.com/media_1500605/Alfred _Wegener.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giant s/Wegener/