Complex sentence: Geologists mercilessly ridiculed Wegener until his hypothesis was recognized as plate tectonics long after he was lost on a glacier in Greenland in November 1930.
Split into simpler sentences: Geologists mercilessly ridiculed Wegener until his hypothesis was recognized as plate tectonics. This recognition, however, occurred long after Wegner was lost on a glacier in Greenland in November 1930.