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William Robert Grove
Sir William Robert Grove, FRS FRSE 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. He invented the Grove voltaic cell.
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science · Welsh judge and physical scientist (1811–1896) · chemist · judge · inventor · physicist · lawyer · photographer · naturalist · barrister · jurist · also William Robert Grove, Sir William Robert Grove, Grove
Born 11 July 1811 · Died 1 August 1896 · Q561117
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1896· 1 entry
Died 1896-08-01.
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1872· 1 entry
Was given an honorary degree by Cambridge University in 1879 and became Privy Councillor in 1887
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1871· 1 entry
Was made judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was appointed to the Queen's Bench in 1880
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1852· 1 entry
Discovered striae, dark bands that occur in electrical breakdown, and investigated their character, presenting his work in an 1858 Bakerian lecture
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1847· 3 entries
Won Royal Medal (1847).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1847).
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Led to the resignation of several key conservatives and the establishment of Grove and his associates with domination of the Council
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1846· 2 entries
Grove published On The Correlation of Physical Forces in which he anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy that was more famously put forward in Hermann von Helmholtz' Über die Erhaltung der Kraft (On
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Grove was elected to the Council of the Royal Society, and was heavily involved in the campaign to modernise its charter, in addition to campaigning for the public funding of science
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1843· 1 entry
Published an anonymous attack on the scientific establishment in Blackwood's Magazine and called for reform
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1842· 2 entries
Was the first announcement of what Grove called the correlation of physical forces, in modern terms, the conservation of energy
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Grove developed the first fuel cell (which he called the gas voltaic battery), which produced electrical energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen, and described it using his correlation theory
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1840· 2 entries
Grove was a critic of the Society, deprecating its cronyism and the de facto rule of a few influential Council members
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Grove invented one of the first incandescent electric lights, which was later perfected by Thomas Edison
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1837· 2 entries
His daughter Anna married Herbert Augustus Hills (1837–1907) and was mother to Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills ("Colonel Rivers") and John Waller Hills.
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And had several children, including Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove
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1835· 1 entry
Was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn
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1829· 1 entry
At the Royal Institution, Grove met Emma Maria Powles
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1811· 1 entry
Born 1811-07-11.
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