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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 190,435 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. William Robert Grove is the 448th most popular physicist (up from 465th in 2019), the 2,086th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,166th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Robert Grove ranks 448 out of 717. Before him are G. M. B. Dobson, Ivan Puluj, Heinrich Rubens, Grote Reber, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Jacques Babinet. After him are Hiroshi Amano, Walther Ritz, Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Giovanni Poleni, and Walter Heitler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, William Robert Grove ranks 39. Before him are Otto Hesse, Raden Saleh, Émilie de Villeneuve, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Mohammad Afzal Khan, and Joseph Cafasso. After him are Karl Gutzkow, J. C. Jacobsen, John William Draper, Peter Julian Eymard, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, and Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Among people deceased in 1896, William Robert Grove ranks 39. Before him are Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Luis Ricardo Falero, and Antônio Carlos Gomes. After him are Maria Wodzińska, Rainilaiarivony, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Antonio Maceo Grajales, Robert Nobel, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Robert Grove ranks 2,086 out of 7,765. Before him are Kelly Brook (1979), Mark Thatcher (1953), William Parry (1790), John Wyndham (1903), William Kent (1685), and Alexander Bain (1818). After him are Oldfield Thomas (1858), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), John Taverner (1490), Francis Darwin (1848), Ian Dury (1942), and Barbara West (1911).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Robert Grove ranks 52. Before him are Duncan Haldane (1951), William Watson (1715), John Kerr (1824), Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Dollond (1706), and G. M. B. Dobson (1889). After him are Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), John Canton (1718), John Leslie (1766), Ernest Marsden (1889), and Dennis W. Sciama (1926).

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