William Robert Grove (11.07.1811-1.08.1896) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1840). He was born in Swansea. He graduated from the University of Oxford (1835). In 1841—46 he was professor at the Royal Institution in London, from 1853 a Queen's Counsel and from 1871 a judge.
His research was in the field of electrochemistry. He constructed (1839) a constant electric cell (the Grove cell) and observed (1847) the electrolytic dissociation of water.