Wolf, Charles J E (1827-1918)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4101. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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French astronomers Charles Wolf and GEORGES RAYET, using the 40 cm Foucault telescope of the Paris Observatory, visually observed the spectra in 1867 of several eighth magnitude stars in Cygnus before the systematic use of photographic plates and found very broad emission lines. The `bands' were originally thought to be hydrocarbon molecules. The stars became known as Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars....

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