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{{Infobox paper
| title = Ott Christoph Hilgenberg in twentieth-century geophysics
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20071013213642/http://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/2015/1/Hilgenberg%20(2).pdf Link to paper (Internet Archive)]
| author = [[Giancarlo Scalera]]
| published = 2003
| num_pages = 17
}}

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==Abstract==

The main points of the life and scientific production of Ott  Christoph Hilgenberg (1896-1976) have been reconstructed. The  events took place between America and Berlin: in America from  1925 to 1928 the young Hilgenberg, with a diploma in Mechanical  Engineering, worked as a Geophysicist in an oil prospecting  company. It was there that he probably developed his interdisciplinary  ideas, which, influenced in various ways by the European  cultural climate, brought him into the field of global tectonics. He  conceived a theory about the expansion of the Earth based on the  nature of the gravity field. In 1933, the theory was published in  his classic work Vom wachsenden Erdball. Upon his return in  Germany he performed various types of research at the School of  Engineering, then that of Geology and Paleontology at the  Technical University of Berlin. He was also briefly involved as  editor of the scientific publications at the Technical University of  Berlin, where he made a contribution towards saving the book  collection as the war ended. During the years spent in Berlin, he  continued to refine his elegant version of the theory of Earth&#8217;s  expansion publishing articles and books on this subject up to the  last years in his life. The importance of Hilgenberg lies in the fact  that he marks the beginning of the integration of various scientific  disciplines from Physics to Paleontology and Paleomagnetism, in  support of a universal tectonic theory, and that he made paleogeographic  reconstructions on globes with smaller radii than the present  one. All those who have worked or are working with one of  the versions of expansion tectonics owe him enormous gratitude  for his inspiration and for the scientific and moral lesson of fifty  years spent in unflagging defence of his ideas. The material gathered  and kindly made available by his daughter Helge has been  indispensable for this recalling.

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