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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
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learn of the death of Mircea Sabau, who passed away on June 15, 
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2009; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau was born on August 24, 1934, in 
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Turda, Romania; as a child, he studied in Turda before moving 
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to Bucharest to continue his studies at the University C.I. 
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Parhon's Faculty of Physics from 1952 to 1957; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, After finishing his studies in 1957, Mircea Sabau 
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worked at the Nuclear Reactor Division of the Institute of 
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Atomic Physics in Bucharest for 18 years; in 1970, he earned 
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his doctorate in high energy physics; he then worked at the 
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Joint Institute of Nuclear Physics at Dubna in the former 
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Soviet Union; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, No longer able to stand the harsh controls of the 
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Communist government in Romania, Mircea Sabau and his family 
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defected to the West in 1975; after working for a year at the 
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Institute of Nuclear Research in Karlsruhe, Germany, he moved 
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to the United States and began working for the Argonne National 
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Laboratory; after his funding at Argonne began to diminish, he 
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decided to study a new field; after taking the Board 
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Examinations in Medical Physics, he became a Professor of 
 


 






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Medical Physics at the University of Chicago, where he worked 
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for 18 years; during that time, he was also placed in charge of 
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calibrating the University Hospital's complex new equipment; 
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he then worked at the Baylor Medical Center at the University 
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of Dallas as a Professor of Medical Physics for 4 years, 
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concurrently serving as the head of the Laboratory of 
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Diagnostic and Treatment Equipment; in 1998, he and his wife 
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retired in order to devote himself fully to increasing Romanian 
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cultural awareness in the Western world; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau published over 150 scientific papers 
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in peer-reviewed journals; he also presented over 50 papers at 
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various international conferences and congresses; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau was a member of numerous civic and 
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cultural organizations; he was a member of the 
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American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Rocky 
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Mountain Modern Language Association, and the Bureau of the 
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Director and representative of the Romanian World Council; he 
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also served as a representative of a non-governmental 
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organization from Romania at the United Nations; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau will be remembered fondly by all and 
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knew and loved him as an honest and caring man whose integrity 
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and dignity were unmatched; therefore, be it
  
 
 


 






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    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that  we mourn, along with 
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his family and friends, the passing of Mircea Sabau; and be it 
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further
  
 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of Mircea Sabau as an expression of our 
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sympathy.