Alfred Wegener
A scientist who nobody truly believed in until the 1960’s.
This is Alfred Wegener.
Time to get this song stuck in your head kiddos!
(Pssst! Yeah, you! Can’t wait till you search up this song in college!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm5giPd5Uro
Behold the eight wonder of the natural word! Come one and come all, see the multi continental planet!
How did this wonderful theory change the world?
The Ending of A Great Man
Alfred would publish the last edition of his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans in 1929. He had died on an unknown day in mid-November in 1930, he had died at the age of 50, on his fourth expedition to Greenland. He had been trying to resupply a remote camp in the deadly tempatures of -60 °C (-76 °F). He supplied the camp successfully, but there was not enough food at the camp for him to stay there. He and a colleague, Rasmus Villumsen, took dog sleds to travel to another camp. Wegener died on the journey, perhaps of hypothermia or a heart attack. Villumsen buried his body in the snow and marked it with skis. Villumsen continued the journey, but had never finished it. His body has not been found to this day. In May 1931 Kurt Wegener discovered his brother’s grave. He and other expedition members built a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the ice and snow, and Alfred Wegener’s body was laid to rest in it. The mausoleum has now been buried under Greenland’s ice and snow.
Danke, for all the hard work you put into your theories that turned out to be true.
Auf Wiedersehen, Alfred Wegener.