What was the nationality of Störmer's co-laureates?
German
Japanese
American
Swedish
Answer
Störmer's co-laureates were both American. Störmer shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Charles Thomson Rees Wilson and Arthur Compton for their discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism. Wilson developed the cloud chamber, a device that allowed scientists to visualize the tracks of charged particles, and Compton discovered the Compton effect, which describes the scattering of X-rays by electrons.
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