When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Continental drift - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift

    Wegener said that of all those theories, Taylor's had the most similarities to his own. For a time in the mid-20th century, the theory of continental drift was referred to as the "Taylor-Wegener hypothesis". [26] [29] [30] [31] Alfred Wegener first presented his hypothesis to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912. [5]

  3. Alfred Wegener - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener

    Six months later, on 12 May 1931, Wegener's skis were discovered. Expedition members built a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the ice and snow, and Alfred Wegener's body was laid to rest. Wegener had been 50 years of age and a heavy smoker, and it was believed that he had died of heart failure brought on by overexertion.

  4. Talk:Continental drift - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Continental_drift

    Since he did publish his theory of continental creep prior to Wegener's first publications on the subject, I think a single paragraph is not "more eminence than warranted." This is an article on continental drift, not the article on Alfred Wegener, and Taylor contributed. Geoffrey.landis 02:37, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

  5. Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the...

    Although Wegener's theory was formed independently and was more complete than those of his predecessors, Wegener later credited a number of past authors with similar ideas: [18] Franklin Coxworthy (between 1848 and 1890), [19] Roberto Mantovani (between 1889 and 1909), William Henry Pickering (1907) [20] and Frank Bursley Taylor (1908). [21]

  6. Marie Tharp - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp

    Marie Tharp was born on July 30, 1920, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the only child of Bertha Louise Tharp, a German and Latin teacher, and William Edgar Tharp, a soil surveyor for the United States Department of Agriculture. [6]

  7. Voters Didn't Reject Women, They Rejected Kamala Harris ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/voters-didnt-reject-women...

    That's why Harris has a reputation as a flip-flopper. That's why she spent much of her short 2024 campaign walking back positions she took during the quite-different political days of 2019 and 2020.

  8. List of superseded scientific theories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superseded...

    Phrenology – a theory of highly localised brain function popular in 19th century medicine. Homeopathy – a theory according to which a disease can be cured by infinitesimal doses of the substance that caused it; Eclectic medicine – transformed into alternative medicine, and is no longer considered a scientific theory

  9. Colin Waters, the chair of the AWG who led the development of the proposal to make the Anthropocene an official part of Earth’s geological history, said the outcome of the vote was “very ...