Full Text of SR0656 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Andrew Vincent Granato of Champaign, who | 4 | | passed away on June 3, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Andrew Granato was born in Cleveland, Ohio to | 6 | | Salvatore Granato and Francesca (nee Polizzi) Granato; he | 7 | | graduated from Bethlemen Central High School in Delmar, New | 8 | | York and served in the United States Naval Reserve while | 9 | | attending the University of Rochester; he received his Bachelor | 10 | | of Science in 1948 and his Master of Science in 1950 from the | 11 | | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York; he earned | 12 | | his Ph.D. in 1955 from Brown University in Providence, Rhode | 13 | | Island; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Andrew Granato was a world-renowned physicist at | 15 | | the University of Illinois, recruited to be a researcher in the | 16 | | field of Condensed Matter Physics; he published more than 170 | 17 | | peer-reviewed papers and was the primary sponsor of 32 Ph.D. | 18 | | students; he focused on several lines of research in structural | 19 | | weaknesses and imperfections in materials; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Andrew Granato was a Research Associate at Brown | 21 | | University from 1955 to 1957; from 1957 to 1959, he was a | 22 | | Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois; |
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| 1 | | from 1959 to 1961, he was a visiting professor in Aachen, | 2 | | Germany, holding a Guggenheim Fellowship for the first year; he | 3 | | was appointed associate professor for physics in 1961 and | 4 | | professor of physics in 1964; from 1971 to 1972, he was an | 5 | | associate in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of | 6 | | Illinois; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, In 1976, Andrew Granato received a United States | 8 | | Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for | 9 | | Research at the Technical University in Aachen; he was a member | 10 | | of the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter | 11 | | Physics of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the | 12 | | American Physical Society and the Acoustical Society of | 13 | | America, and a member of the American Institute of | 14 | | Metallurgical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and | 15 | | Electronics Engineers; he was Chairman of the International | 16 | | Conference on Internal Friction and Ultrasonic Attenuation | 17 | | held in Urbana in 1985; from 1987 to 1988, he was the Bernd T. | 18 | | Matthias Visiting Scholar at the Los Alamos National Laboratory | 19 | | and Guest Research Fellow at the Institute for Industrial | 20 | | Science at the University of Tokyo; he also received several | 21 | | fellowships and awards, including the Zener Prize and | 22 | | Guggenheim and Humboldt fellowships; and | 23 | | WHEREAS, Andrew Granato was preceded in death by his | 24 | | parents, and his wife, Pauline Brassard Granato; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Andrew Granato is survived by his 4 children, | 2 | | Samuel Charles Granato (Susy), Andrea Marguerite Frankenfield | 3 | | (David), Sarah Francesca Yeates, and Ann Vivian Welch (Rick); | 4 | | his 3 grandchildren, Andrew Granato, Willis Welch, and | 5 | | Alexander Granato; and his sister, Vivian Granato; therefore, | 6 | | be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 8 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 9 | | Andrew Vincent Granato, and extend our sincere condolences to | 10 | | his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 11 | | further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 13 | | presented to the family of Andrew Granato as an expression of | 14 | | our deepest sympathy.
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