For decades to come, his ideas were dismissed as the left-field notions of a crackpot.
A visionary and hero of science, he died in 1930 in Greenland as he attempted to establish a mid-ice observatory. For decades to come, his ideas were dismissed as the left-field notions of a crackpot. FTP, who is this person who, in 1915, in his book The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, proposed the idea that the continents had once been a single mass, which he called Pangaea?
A visionary and hero of science, he died in 1930 in Greenland as he attempted to establish a mid-ice observatory.
Alfred Wegener