Karl Jakobs
{{short description|German physicist}}
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- University of Bonn (Diplom)
- Heidelberg University (PhD)}}
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}}Karl Jakobs is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Freiburg, Germany.{{cite web|url=http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/jakobs |title=Experimentelle Teilchenphysik — Abteilung Prof. Karl Jakobs |language=de |publisher=Portal.uni-freiburg.de |date= |accessdate=2017-06-17}} He was the Spokesperson (scientific head) of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN from 2017 to 2021.{{cite web|url=http://atlas.cern/updates/atlas-news/new-management-atlas-experiment |title=New Management at the ATLAS Experiment | ATLAS Experiment at CERN |publisher=Atlas.cern |date= |accessdate=2017-06-17}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/jakobs/jak |title=Prof. Dr. Karl Jakobs — Abteilung Prof. Karl Jakobs |language=de |publisher=Portal.uni-freiburg.de |date= |accessdate=2017-06-20}}
Awards
In 2015 Karl Jakobs was awarded the Stern–Gerlach Medal for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/preise/preistraeger_sg.html |title=Preisträger Stern-Gerlach nach Jahren |publisher=Dpg-physik.de |date=2016-11-17 |accessdate=2017-06-17 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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