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William Jacob

English astronomer in India · Scientists · Lived 1813 to 1862 · aged 49

William Stephen Jacob (1813-1862) was an English immigrant astronomer in India, who acted as the director of the Madras Observatory from 1848 to 1859. His early claim of 1855 to have detected an exoplanet, in orbit around 70 Ophiuchi, is now thought to have been mistaken.

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