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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. He was elected to the positions of Vice-President (1897) and President (1898) of the French Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Wolf is the 310th most popular astronomer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 3,243rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,043rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Wolf ranks 310 out of 644. Before him are Philippe van Lansberge, Luigi Carnera, Charles Dillon Perrine, Guillaume Le Gentil, Agrippa, and Benjamin Markarian. After him are Hubert Reeves, Guido Bonatti, Michael H. Hart, Frank Elmore Ross, Hendrik van Gent, and Karl Christian Bruhns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Charles Wolf ranks 46. Before him are Kusumoto Ine, Karl Maximovich, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Amédée Courbet, Pierre Cuypers, and Pierre Tirard. After him are Goffredo Mameli, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jacques-Louis Soret, Nakahama Manjirō, and Petko Slaveykov. Among people deceased in 1918, Charles Wolf ranks 108. Before him are Ewald Hering, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, Charlie Soong, Anna Demidova, Arthur Cravan, and Trifko Grabež. After him are Malak Hifni Nasif, Ivan Puluj, Prince Mirko of Montenegro, Nigâr Hanım, Casimir de Candolle, and William Hope Hodgson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Wolf ranks 3,243 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), Vladimir Posner (1934), Toulo de Graffenried (1914), and Guy Laroche (1921). After him are Henri-Montan Berton (1767), Marcel Bozzuffi (1928), Charles Chamberland (1851), Henri Queuille (1884), René Duguay-Trouin (1673), and Régine Pernoud (1909).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Charles Wolf ranks 34. Before him are Marguerite Laugier (1896), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean Fernel (1497), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Hervé Faye (1814), and Guillaume Le Gentil (1725). After him are Georges Rayet (1839), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), André Patry (1902), and Louis Boyer (1901).

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