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Charles Wolf

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Wolf has received more than 8,973 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles Wolf is the 273rd most popular astronomer (up from 333rd in 2019), the 3,192nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,444th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Wolf ranks 273 out of 531. Before him are Antonia Maury, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Laurent Cassegrain, Jean Richer, Carl Charlier, and Lewis Boss. After him are Grigory Neujmin, Robert T. A. Innes, Maria Clara Eimmart, Karl Christian Bruhns, Mashallah ibn Athari, and Edwin Ernest Salpeter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Charles Wolf ranks 38. Before him are Nikolai Severtzov, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, Pierre Cuypers, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Kusumoto Ine. After him are Henri Ernest Baillon, Nikolay Beketov, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Goffredo Mameli, Pierre Tirard, and Karl Maximovich. Among people deceased in 1918, Charles Wolf ranks 109. Before him are Édouard Chavannes, Konstantin Jireček, Robbie Ross, George Mary Searle, Marianne Cope, and Wilfred Owen. After him are Albert Ballin, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, William Hope Hodgson, Ali Aaltonen, Ulisse Dini, and George Coșbuc.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Wolf ranks 3,192 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Sifrein Maury (1746), René Barjavel (1911), Loyset Compère (1440), Victor de Broglie (1785), Léo Malet (1909), and Bernard de Jussieu (1699). After him are Auguste Chevalier (1873), Gérard Grisey (1946), Pierre Nicole (1625), Georges Sadoul (1904), Jean Jouvenet (1644), and François Habeneck (1781).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Charles Wolf ranks 26. Before him are Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Alexis Bouvard (1767), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), and Laurent Cassegrain (1629). After him are Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Louis Boyer (1901), and Marguerite Laugier (1896).

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