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▪ I. Wegener1 Geol.|ˈveɪgənə(r)|
The name of Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German geophysicist, used in the possessive with reference to the theory of continental drift which he first published in 1912.
1922Living Age 10 June 657 Professor F. E. Weiss..writes in the Manchester Guardian that Professor Wegener's theory ‘constitutes a good working hypothesis, and the striking simplicity with which it allows many phenomena to be explained will greatly stimulate further enquiry’. 1926[see continental drift s.v. continental a. 1 d]. 1963Sci. Amer. Apr. 90/1 Between 1920 and 1922 Wegener's hypothesis excited great controversy. 1982Nature 23/30 Dec. 681/2 Jeffreys refers with regret to the defection of Sir Arthur Holmes to ‘Wegener's theory’.
Hence Wegeˈnerian a.
1960Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XLIV. 245 (caption) Early tertiary paleography and trans-Atlantic migration route for shelf benthos according to Wegenerian hypothesis of continental drift. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 340 Some zoologists are inclined to accept the Wegenerian idea that the Atlantic Ocean is indeed young, and of no greater antiquity than the Cretaceous. 1980Guardian 20 Nov. 13/8 Pangea..probably existed for a few hundred million years before it..began to break up to generate Wegenerian drift.
▪ II. Wegener2 Path.|ˈveɪgənə(r)|
[The name of F. Wegener, 20th-century German physician.]
Wegener's granulomatosis: an often fatal disease characterized by granulomatosis of the respiratory tract and necrotizing blood-vessels.
1948Acta Path. & Microbiol. Scandinav. XXV. 582 Clinically, this case agreed well with the previously described cases of Wegener's granulomatosis. 1957Thorax XII. 57/1 The syndrome has been known as Wegener's granulomatosis since his detailed description of three cases in 1936 and 1939. 1977Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 4 Dec. 27/6 An autopsy showed that my grandmother died of a very rare disease called Wegener's granulomatosis. |