2) Baden, former state, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Karlsruhe was the capital. Stretching from the Main River in the northeast across the lower Neckar valley and along the right bank of the Rhine to Lake Constance...

3) Wegener, Alfred Lothar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of the aeronautical observatory at Lindenberg; was a professor of geophysics...

4) continental drift. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Though first proposed by American geologist Frank Bursley Taylor in a lecture in 1908, the first detailed theory of continental drift was put forth by German meteorologist...

5) genetics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from generation to generation in 1856, it was...