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Timeline. 1880-1889. Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin, Germany. He was also born on the

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  2. 1880-1889 Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin, Germany. He was also born on the 1st of November. His father ran an orphanage. His father was also a minister. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though training for an expedition.

  3. 1890-1906 Wegener experimented with kites and balloons set a world record with his brother Kurt in an international balloon contest, flying 52 hours straight. That was in 1906, the year he made his first expedition to Greenland. He went as the official meteorologist on a two-year Danish expedition. When he came back he took up teaching meteorology at the University of Marburg. He was a very popular lecturer.

  4. 1910-1919 In 1910, Wegener saw the matching coastlines of the Atlantic continents. They looked on maps like they had once fit together. He wasn’t the first to notice them, but he would never forget this. In 1911, he published a textbook on the thermodynamics of atmosphere. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married to the daughter of Germany's leading meteorologist.

  5. 1919-1930 In 1926 Wegener was finally offered a professorship in meteorology. In 1930 he sailed from Denmark as the leader of a major expedition to Greenland. It was his 4th expedition and it was also his last. He celebrated his fiftieth birthday on November 1, but shortly afterwards the team got separated. He got lost in a blizzard and died.

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