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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 9,290 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Charles Wolf is the 252nd most popular astronomer (up from 273rd in 2019), the 3,042nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,180th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Wolf ranks 252 out of 644. Before him are César-François Cassini de Thury, Oenopides, Vesto Slipher, William Wallace Campbell, Svetlana Gerasimenko, and Bengt Strömgren. After him are Laurent Cassegrain, Klim Churyumov, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Sandra Faber, George Ellery Hale, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Charles Wolf ranks 37. Before him are Nikolai Severtzov, Paul de Lagarde, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, and Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After him are Pierre Cuypers, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Amédée Courbet, Kusumoto Ine, Pierre Tirard, and Henri Ernest Baillon. Among people deceased in 1918, Charles Wolf ranks 104. Before him are Olga Rozanova, George Mary Searle, Prince Mirko of Montenegro, Anna Demidova, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, and Arthur Cravan. After him are Carl Peters, Meshadi Azizbekov, Ivan Puluj, Wilfred Owen, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, and Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Wolf ranks 3,042 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Grimal (1912), Jacques Santini (1952), Guy Laroche (1921), Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria (1403), Phillipe de Plessis (1165), and Louis Charles Breguet (1880). After him are Irène Jacob (1966), Ludovic Giuly (1976), Gabriel Hanotaux (1853), Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Guiraut Riquier (1230), and Laurent Cassegrain (1629).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Charles Wolf ranks 24. Before him are Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Jean Fernel (1497), and César-François Cassini de Thury (1714). After him are Laurent Cassegrain (1629), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845).

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