Fredrik Carl Mülertz Störmer, 1874-1957

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This biography records the life of Carl Störmer, a son of Norway who added many important scientific achievements to his country’s laurels. Born on 3 September 1874 at Skien, Norway, he died at Blindern on 13 August 1957, nearly 83 years old. I have no record of his ancestry or family background, but material concerning his childhood is given in an interview published in 1925 in a journal ( Varden ) not available to me. In March 1956 he sent me a brief list of ‘biographical notices’ about himself—perhaps realizing that I might be invited to write such a notice as this. It contained several interesting particulars herein incorporated, which otherwise would not have come to my notice. In this typed list the o in his surname is written ö, not ø. He was the only child of Georg Ludvig Störmer (an apothecary or dispensing chemist, first in Skien, later in Oslo), and Henriette Störmer, nee Mülertz. From his childhood he showed a deep interest in the natural sciences, astronomy, physics, chemistry, meteorology, geology and in particular botany. At the age of about sixteen his interest turned exclusively to pure mathematics.

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