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Invented the discipline of geography, He made the first measurement of the size Earth.
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Known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift.
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One of the first geologists. Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics,
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