Freimann Professor Ani Aprahamian and Professor Stephan Frauendorf have been named Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society for 2016. The American Physical Society initiated the highly selective award program in 2008 to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. The basis for selection was the quality, number and timeliness of their reports, without regard for membership in the APS, country of origin, or field of research. Like Fellowship in the APS and other organizations, this is a lifetime award. In initiating the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS.
Additional ND Physics faculty who have received this honor are Jonathan Sapirstein, Neal Cason, Jacek Furdyna, Walter Johnson, James Kolata, and H. Gordon Berry. The full list of recipients can be found on the APS website (http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees).