Dr. Carl Brune
Dr. Carl Brune, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was honored as an 2016 Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS).
“Congratulations to Carl,” says Dr. David Ingram, Professor and Chair of the department. “This is a great acknowledgement for your service to the profession by the editors of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters. It is also noteworthy that you are the fourth person in the department to be awarded this highly selective distinction given that there are roughly 60,000 active referees, and a small percentage are recognized each year as Outstanding Referees.”
The Outstanding Referee program was instituted in 2008 to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. The honorees come from over 50 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, Canada, Spain, UK, and France.
“I think that being a referee is important,” Brune says, “because it helps maintain standards in our publications. Besides weeding out sub-standard work, the referee can help make a good paper better or sometimes catch mistakes that would otherwise go unnoticed or correct misleading statements.”
About APS: The American Physical Society is a non-profit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy and international activities. APS represents 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington, DC.
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