We don't want to conclude this epigraph without dedicating some words to the memory of Alfred Lothar Wegener, the most relevant figure of the first aerologic sounding carried out in Cuba.Wegener was born in Berlin, Germany, on November 1 1880. After studying in the University of that city, he obtained in 1905 his title as doctor in sciences. Later he was interested in the sciences of the atmosphere and he specialized in paleoclimatology (Brit. Enc.. 1993).
His most important scientific realization, or at least the one that has conferred him universal fame, was the “Theory of the Drift of the Continents” in which he advanced the bases of a model about the dynamics of the terrestrial lithosphere, known at the moment as “Tectonic of Plates.” This geodynamic model is accepted by most of the contemporary specialists. The first of his works on that topic was published in 1915 under the title of Die Entstehung der Kontinente Und der Ozeane,
Wegener imparted meteorology courses at the universities of Marburg and Hamburg. Between the years 1912 and 1913 he participated in an expedition to Greenland whose objective was the study of the atmospheric circulation in the Polar Regions. He was professor of meteorology and geophysics at the University of Graz (1924-1930). In the last stage of his life he returned to Greenland (1929) and died there in November 1930.