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