Essays Tagged: "Wegener"
HIV and AIDS: Causes and Affects On the Population of Nigeria
g into a softball sized crater. The doctors in Manchester, UK, suspected tuberculosis, syphilis, or Wegener's granulomatosis, and in an attempt to eradicate his unique disease, subjected David to radi ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Meteorologist: Alfred Wegener
ALFRED WEGENER(1880-1930)German climatologist and geophysicist who, in 1915, published as expanded version ... and revile the man who dared to propose it, German meteorological pioneer and polar explorer Alfred Wegener. Science historians compare his story with the tribulations of Galileo.A Geographic Jigsaw P ... South America fit exactly against the west coast of Africa, as if they had once been joined?" wrote Wegener to his future wife in December 1910. "This is an idea I'll have to pursue."The following fal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Meteorology
Essay on Karl Blossfeldt
publications.He was married twice; first with Maria Plank in 1898 then with an opera singer, Helene Wegener in 1912. He taught in Berlin at the Institute of Royal Arts and Crafts Museum in 1898 and wa ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Examining the Impact of Geology on Society
f the Earth. The man who studied this movement so extensively was a gentleman by the name of Alfred Wegener. In 1911, Wegener was browsing around the school's library where he taught at the University ... d by thousands of miles of oceans. With this new fossilized information on two separate continents, Wegener began to notice that there was a close fit between the coastlines of South America and Afric ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences