Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German interdisciplinary scientist and meteorologist, who became famous for his theory of continental drift ("die Verschiebung der Kontinente" in his words). Wikipedia
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Perhaps Alfred Wegener's greatest contribution to the scientific world was his ability to weave seemingly dissimilar, unrelated facts into a theory, which was remarkably visionary for the time. pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/wegener.html
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Our research is targeted at the ocean-ice-atmosphere system , polar and marine communities and geological evolution of the polar and marine oceans www.awi-bremerhaven.de/index-e.html
We now know that Wegener's theory was wrong in one major point: continents do not plow through the ocean floor. www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html