He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel.

He is the author of a number of physics-themed books including Taking the Quantum Leap (1981), The Dreaming Universe (1994), Mind into Matter (2000), and Time Loops and Space Twists (2011).

[1] Wolf was a member in the 1970s, with Jack Sarfatti and others, of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Fundamental Fysiks Group founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann.

"[3] Born into a Jewish family,[4] Wolf's interest in physics began as a child when he viewed a newsreel depicting the world's first atomic explosion.

Wolf received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UCLA in 1963 and began researching the field of high atmospheric particle behavior following a nuclear explosion.