Word info

Wegener

Proper noun

Meaning

Wegener (plural Wegeners)

A surname.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution. Kage Baker

According to Sub-Lieutenant Gordon Steele : "Wegener ran to a cabin on the upper deck -- I later found out it was Manning's bathroom. Source: Internet

Additionally, in 1924, geophysicist Alfred Wegener used illustrations to visually demonstrate the origin of the continents. Source: Internet

After reading all three of Wegener's papers setting out his ideas, Admiral Hipper decided to submit them to the Admiralty in Berlin, but changed his mind after reading a paper by Raeder attacking the "Wegener thesis" as flawed. Source: Internet

As the Earth spins eastward beneath the moon, the moon's gravity ever so slightly pulls the Earth's surface layer back westward, just as proposed by Alfred Wegener (see above). Source: Internet

As Frink is elsewhere exposed as a Jew and arrested, Wegener and Tagomi are confronted by the SD agents, both of whom Tagomi shoots dead with an antique American pistol. Source: Internet

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