Prof Auguste Arthur de la Rive ForMemRS, HFRSE (9 October 1801 – 27 November 1873) was a Swiss physicist. He was President of the Helvetic Society of Natural Science in 1845. De la Rive's first scientific publication was on the influence of the Earth's magnetism upon a movable frame traversed by a voltaic current, published in 1822, and followed by a memoir upon Caustics, which appeared in 1823. Over a period of fifty years, De la Rive made numerous contributions to science, which were published in the Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève or in the Bibliothèque universelle de Genève.