Charles Wolf
Charles Wolf, 1887
Born	(1827-11-09)9 November 1827
Died	4 July 1918(1918-07-04) (aged 90)
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Thesis	De l'Influence de la température sur les phénomènes qui se passent dans les tubes capillaires (1856)

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.^[1]

• MNRAS 79 (1919) 235
• "Notes". Nature. 101 (2545): 450–454. 1918. Bibcode:1918Natur.101..450.. doi:10.1038/101450a0. (p. 451)
• Obs 41 (1918) 365
• The Pulfrich Effect: Wolf (1865)