Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #94: Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930) Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930) was a German scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift which hypothesized that the continents slowly drift around the Earth. In addition, he proposed that the continents had once made up one supercontinent that had broken up and drifted apart 180 million years ago. Like many Western culture heroes, his ideas were initially rejected for decades. His theory, however, was ultimately triumphant and helped lead to an explanation of crucial geologic processes of the Earth, including why and how earthquakes and volcanoes occur. Go to #95: William Shakespeare Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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