Karl Jakobs

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

Karl Jakobs
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Websitewww.particles.uni-freiburg.de

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 has been awarded the Stern–Gerlach Medal for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson.[4]

References
  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.


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