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Wegener   /wˈɛginər/   Listen
Wegener

noun
1.
German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930).  Synonym: Alfred Lothar Wegener.






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"Wegener" Quotes from Famous Books



... Flanders which, begun on July 31, was to rage till the following winter, it may not be out of place to quote a German appreciation. In an issue of the Lokal Anzeiger, published at the end of September, 1917, after two months' uninterrupted fighting, Doctor Wegener wrote as follows: ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux

... casual intercourse with H. Truhn rather more entertaining. I used to treat him to a good glass of wine at Lutter and Wegener's, where I went occasionally on account of its association with Hoffmann, and he would then listen with apparently growing interest to my ideas as to the possible development of opera and the goal at which we should aim. His comments were generally witty and very much ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner



Words linked to "Wegener" :   geophysicist, Alfred Lothar Wegener



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