Full Text of SR0590 96th General Assembly
SR0590 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Mircea Sabau, who passed away on June 15, | 4 |
| 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau was born on August 24, 1934, in | 6 |
| Turda, Romania; as a child, he studied in Turda before moving | 7 |
| to Bucharest to continue his studies at the University C.I. | 8 |
| Parhon's Faculty of Physics from 1952 to 1957; and
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| WHEREAS, After finishing his studies in 1957, Mircea Sabau | 10 |
| worked at the Nuclear Reactor Division of the Institute of | 11 |
| Atomic Physics in Bucharest for 18 years; in 1970, he earned | 12 |
| his doctorate in high energy physics; he then worked at the | 13 |
| Joint Institute of Nuclear Physics at Dubna in the former | 14 |
| Soviet Union; and
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| WHEREAS, No longer able to stand the harsh controls of the | 16 |
| Communist government in Romania, Mircea Sabau and his family | 17 |
| defected to the West in 1975; after working for a year at the | 18 |
| Institute of Nuclear Research in Karlsruhe, Germany, he moved | 19 |
| to the United States and began working for the Argonne National | 20 |
| Laboratory; after his funding at Argonne began to diminish, he | 21 |
| decided to study a new field; after taking the Board | 22 |
| Examinations in Medical Physics, he became a Professor of |
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| Medical Physics at the University of Chicago, where he worked | 2 |
| for 18 years; during that time, he was also placed in charge of | 3 |
| calibrating the University Hospital's complex new equipment; | 4 |
| he then worked at the Baylor Medical Center at the University | 5 |
| of Dallas as a Professor of Medical Physics for 4 years, | 6 |
| concurrently serving as the head of the Laboratory of | 7 |
| Diagnostic and Treatment Equipment; in 1998, he and his wife | 8 |
| retired in order to devote himself fully to increasing Romanian | 9 |
| cultural awareness in the Western world; and
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| WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau published over 150 scientific papers | 11 |
| in peer-reviewed journals; he also presented over 50 papers at | 12 |
| various international conferences and congresses; and
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| WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau was a member of numerous civic and | 14 |
| cultural organizations; he was a member of the | 15 |
| American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Rocky | 16 |
| Mountain Modern Language Association, and the Bureau of the | 17 |
| Director and representative of the Romanian World Council; he | 18 |
| also served as a representative of a non-governmental | 19 |
| organization from Romania at the United Nations; and
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| WHEREAS, Mircea Sabau will be remembered fondly by all and | 21 |
| knew and loved him as an honest and caring man whose integrity | 22 |
| and dignity were unmatched; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 2 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 3 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Mircea Sabau; and be it | 4 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to the family of Mircea Sabau as an expression of our | 7 |
| sympathy.
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