PHYSICIST

William Robert Grove

1811 - 1896

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Sir William Robert Grove, FRS FRSE (11 July 1811 – 1 August 1896) was a Welsh judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Robert Grove has received more than 189,104 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. William Robert Grove is the 494th most popular physicist (down from 448th in 2019), the 2,226th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,081st in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Physicist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Robert Groves by language

Over the past year William Robert Grove has had the most page views in the with 15,090 views, followed by Spanish (2,524), and German (2,286). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (113.06%), Egyptian Arabic (95.02%), and Persian (44.78%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Robert Grove ranks 494 out of 851. Before him are Martin Knudsen, Ivan Puluj, Maurice Karnaugh, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Gordon Gould, and Alexei Starobinsky. After him are Friedrich Kohlrausch, Raoul Pictet, Walter Heitler, Ira Sprague Bowen, Walther Ritz, and Richard Mollier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, William Robert Grove ranks 42. Before him are Karel Jaromír Erben, Karl Gutzkow, Émilie de Villeneuve, Joseph Cafasso, Georg August Wallin, and Peter Julian Eymard. After him are Carl Johan Thyselius, John William Draper, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, J. C. Jacobsen, Sakuma Shōzan, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad. Among people deceased in 1896, William Robert Grove ranks 48. Before him are Stamata Revithi, Karl Verner, Antonio Maceo Grajales, Jules Simon, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, and Napoleon Sarony. After him are Charles Floquet, Charilaos Trikoupis, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Ferdinand von Mueller, Maria Wodzińska, and Carl Humann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Robert Grove ranks 2,226 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Hunt (1938), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), Frank Bridge (1879), Richard Wilson (1714), Joseph Fiennes (1970), and Mark Williams (1959). After him are Rufus Sewell (1967), Richard Chancellor (1521), Gerry Adams (1948), Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), and Michelle Fairley (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Robert Grove ranks 54. Before him are Louis Harold Gray (1905), William Watson (1715), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), John Kerr (1824), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), and John Leslie (1766). After him are William Edward Ayrton (1847), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), C. P. Snow (1905), Paul Davies (1946), and Joseph Larmor (1857).

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