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Here is a great article about the "Father of Plate Tectonics", Alfred Wegener, who 100 years ago began publishing his ideas about continental drift. His theories met stiff resistance from leading American geologists and paleontologists for decades and were not to gain acceptance until the 1960s.

'But Wegener was not timid about disciplinary boundaries, or much else. He was an Arctic explorer and a record-setting balloonist, and when his scientific mentor and future father-in-law advised him to be cautious in his theorizing, Wegener replied, "Why should we hesitate to toss the old views overboard?"'

From "When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudo Science"


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