William Robert Grove
1811–96
Lawyer, judge, and natural philosopher. Professor of experimental philosophy, London Institution, 1841. An active member of the Royal Society of London; founder member of the Philosophical Club, 1847; Royal Medallist, 1847. Appointed judge, Court of Common Pleas, 1871. Knighted, 1872. FRS 1840.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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