Carl Størmer

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Frederik Carl Mülertz Størmer (born September 3, 1874 in Skien , † August 13, 1957 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician .

Størmer was from 1903 to 1946 professor of pure mathematics at Christiana University (now Oslo University). He was also the first president of the Norwegian Mathematical Society, founded in 1918 .

Størmer developed a mathematical theory of the Northern Lights phenomena. The Verlet-Störmer method for the numerical integration of Newton's equations of motion of interacting particles is named after him and Loup Verlet .

In 1936 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo (Program for the Quantitative Discussion of Electron Orbits in the Field of a Magnetic Dipole, with Application to Cosmic Rays and Kindred Phenomena) and in 1924 at the in Toronto (Modern Norwegian Researches on the Aurora Borealis).

He had been a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1918 and an honorary member since 1934 . In 1947 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

The mountain Størmerfjellet on the Spitsbergen -Archipel and Størmer number was named after him.

Works

  • The Polar Aurora (1955)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Frederik Carl Mülertz Størmer. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 24, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 5, 2020 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Størmer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Størmer, Frederik Carl Mülertz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Skien , Norway
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1957
Place of death Oslo