Karl Jakobs is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Freiburg, Germany.[1] He was the Spokesperson (scientific head) of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN from 2017 to 2021.[2]

Karl Jakobs
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Websitewww.particles.uni-freiburg.de

Education

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Jakobs studied at the University of Bonn and received his Diplom in 1984. He went to the Heidelberg University to study the properties of the production of W and Z bosons in proton-proton collisions and received his PhD in 1988.[3]

Awards

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In 2015 Karl Jakobs was awarded the Stern–Gerlach Medal for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Experimentelle Teilchenphysik — Abteilung Prof. Karl Jakobs" (in German). Portal.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  2. ^ "New Management at the ATLAS Experiment | ATLAS Experiment at CERN". Atlas.cern. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  3. ^ "Prof. Dr. Karl Jakobs — Abteilung Prof. Karl Jakobs" (in German). Portal.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  4. ^ "Preisträger Stern-Gerlach nach Jahren". Dpg-physik.de. 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2017-06-17.