Karl Jakobs Explained

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]

Education

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

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

Notes and References

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