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.
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- MNRAS 79 (1919) 235
- (p. 451)
- Obs 41 (1918) 365
- The Pulfrich Effect: Wolf (1865)