Alfred Wegener (Paperback)

Mott T. Greene

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2018

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Paperback. A masterful biography of Alfred Wegener (18801930), the German scientist who discovered continental drift.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLAlfred Wegener aimed to create a revolution in science which would rank with those of Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin. After completing his doctoral studies in astronomy at the University of Berlin, Wegener found himself drawn not to observatory science but to rugged fieldwork, which allowed him to cross into a variety of disciplines. The author of the theory of continental driftthe direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics and one of the key scientific concepts of the past centuryWegener also made major contributions to geology, geophysics, astronomy, geodesy, atmospheric physics, meteorology, and glaciology. Remarkably, he completed this pathbreaking work while grappling variously with financial difficulty, war, economic depression, scientific isolation, illness, and injury. He ultimately died of overexertion on a journey to probe the Greenland icecap and calculate its rate of drift. This landmark biographythe only complete account of the scientists fascinating life and workis the culmination of more than twenty years of intensive research. In Alfred Wegener, Mott T. Greene places Wegeners upbringing and theoretical advances in earth science in the context of his brilliantly eclectic career, bringing Wegener to life by analyzing his published scientific work, delving into all of his surviving letters and journals, and tracing both his passionate commitment to science and his thrilling experiences as a polar explorer, a military officer during World War I, and a world-recordsetting balloonist. In the course of writing this book, Greene traveled to every place that Alfred Wegener lived and workedto Berlin, rural Brandenburg, Marburg, Hamburg, and Heidelberg in Germany; to Innsbruck and Graz in Austria; and onto the Greenland icecap. He also pored over archives in Copenhagen, Munich, Marburg, Graz, and Bremerhaven, where the majority of Wegeners surviving papers are found. Written with great immediacy and descriptive power, Alfred Wegener is a powerful portrait of the scientist who pioneered the modern concept of unified Earth science. The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to all readers who are fascinated by the great minds of science. The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to all readers who are fascinated by the great minds of science. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Alfred Wegener (Paperback)
Auteur
Mott T. Greene
Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Année de publication
2018
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1421427095
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781421427096

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