He earned a PhD in astronomy from the University of Berlin in 1904, and published a textbook on meteorology entitled The Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere.
He earned a PhD in astronomy from the University of Berlin in 1904, and published a textbook on meteorology entitled The Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere. An accomplished balloonist, he pioneered the use of weather balloon usage. However, his biggest accomplishments came in the field of geology, where he proposed the theory of continental drift and postulated the existence of the supercontinent Pangaea. FTP, name this interdisciplinary German scientist, who wrote The Origin of Continents and Oceans.
He earned a PhD in astronomy from the University of Berlin in 1904, and published a textbook on meteorology entitled The Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere.
Alfred {Wegener}