Charles Wolf (astronomer)
{{Short description|French astronomer (1827–1918)}}
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Charles Joseph Étienne Wolf (9 November 1827 in Vorges – 4 July 1918) was a French astronomer.
In 1862, Urbain Le Verrier offered him a post as assistant at the Paris Observatory.
In 1867 he and Georges Rayet discovered Wolf–Rayet stars.
He was elected to the positions of Vice-President (1897) and President (1898) of the French Academy of Sciences.[https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/Histoire-de-l-Academie-des-sciences/liste-des-presidents-de-l-academie-des-sciences-de-1699-a-nos-jours.html Présidents de l'Académie des sciences de 1699 à nos jours]
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External links
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0079//0000235.000.html MNRAS 79 (1919) 235]
- {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/101450a0 | title = Notes | journal = Nature | volume = 101 | issue = 2545 | pages = 450–454 | year = 1918 | bibcode = 1918Natur.101..450. }} (p. 451)
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0041//0000365.000.html Obs 41 (1918) 365]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081231171945/http://www.siu.edu/~pulfrich/Pulfrich_Pages/lit_nonp/pers_eqn/1865_WolfVerr.htm The Pulfrich Effect: Wolf (1865)]
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Category:19th-century French astronomers
Category:École Normale Supérieure alumni
Category:Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of the Ligue de la patrie française
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