| Georgi had asked Wegener to coordinate an expedition to establish a winter weather station to study the jet stream in the upper atmosphere. |
| However, at the time that Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift, most scientists still believed the Earth was a solid, motionless body. |
| The Z allele is also suspected in patients with Wegener granulomatosis and panniculitis. |
| No mechanism was known, for example for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. |
| Thorpe alludes in a note to a German poem by Wegener, which I have not seen. |
| For example, when Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift he could not explain how continents move. |
