Bill Text: IL SR2430 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Jeremiah David Sullivan of Urbana.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-01 - Resolution Adopted [SR2430 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR2430-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
3 | learn of the death of Jeremiah David Sullivan of Urbana, who | ||||||
4 | passed away on July 7, 2016; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan was born on November 15, 1938 in | ||||||
6 | Norwood, Massachusetts; his parents were Jeremiah F. Sullivan | ||||||
7 | and Doris Nutton Sullivan; and
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8 | WHEREAS, After receiving his bachelor's degree in physics | ||||||
9 | as an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar in 1960 from Carnegie Institute | ||||||
10 | of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Jeremiah | ||||||
11 | Sullivan earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University | ||||||
12 | in 1964; he spent his postdoctoral years as a research | ||||||
13 | associate in the theoretical physics group at the Stanford | ||||||
14 | Linear Accelerator Center; and
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15 | WHEREAS, In 1967, Jeremiah Sullivan joined the Physics | ||||||
16 | Department at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana as | ||||||
17 | an associate professor; he became a professor in 1973; he | ||||||
18 | retired from the University of Illinois in July of 2006 as the | ||||||
19 | head of the Department of Physics, a position he held for six | ||||||
20 | years; and
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21 | WHEREAS, In 1974, Jeremiah Sullivan began what ultimately |
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1 | developed into his major research direction when he accepted an | ||||||
2 | invitation to become a member of JASON, a group of scientists | ||||||
3 | who provide expert technical analyses to the United States | ||||||
4 | government on scientific issues relevant to national security; | ||||||
5 | each summer, until 2011, he spent six weeks working with the | ||||||
6 | JASON group and contributed greatly to its success; he also | ||||||
7 | lent his expertise to a number of other important studies and | ||||||
8 | reviews that have played key roles in the evolution of United | ||||||
9 | States defense policy over the past 20 years; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan made significant contributions | ||||||
11 | to particle physics in the early years of his career; he was a | ||||||
12 | member of numerous influential committees, including the | ||||||
13 | United States Department of Energy's High Energy Physics | ||||||
14 | Advisory Panel, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Particle Data | ||||||
15 | Group Advisory Panel; the Advisory Committee of the National | ||||||
16 | Nuclear Security Administration, the Board of Directors of the | ||||||
17 | Arms Control Association, the Distinguished External Advisory | ||||||
18 | Committee on Arms Control and National Security of Sandia | ||||||
19 | National Laboratories, the External Review Committee of the | ||||||
20 | Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and International Security | ||||||
21 | Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the | ||||||
22 | Review Committee of the National Security Directorate of | ||||||
23 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; he was also the acting | ||||||
24 | head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Fermi National | ||||||
25 | Accelerator Laboratory in 1972; and
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1 | WHEREAS, In 2001, Jeremiah Sullivan was appointed to a | ||||||
2 | four-year term as the United States representative to the Panel | ||||||
3 | on Security-Related Civil Science and Technology, a | ||||||
4 | subcommittee of the NATO Science Committee; he served on the | ||||||
5 | Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the | ||||||
6 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1988 to 2002 and on | ||||||
7 | the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the | ||||||
8 | National Academy of Sciences from 1980 to 1983; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan was elected as a Fellow of the | ||||||
10 | American Physical Society and the American Association for the | ||||||
11 | Advancement of Science; he received an Alfred P. Sloan | ||||||
12 | Foundation fellowship in 1968; he was also recognized by the | ||||||
13 | American Physical Society with the 2000 Leo Szilard Award; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan loved sailing in the Pacific | ||||||
15 | waters off San Diego and was delighted to be co-captain of a | ||||||
16 | six-person sailboat for two weeks with his friends in Tahiti | ||||||
17 | and Bora Bora in 2001; he enjoyed building furniture and wooden | ||||||
18 | toys for his children and was handy in fixing anything that | ||||||
19 | broke; he enjoyed art and was good at framing pictures for his | ||||||
20 | home and for gifts; he enjoyed music, his garden, spending time | ||||||
21 | in nature, and traveling with his wife throughout the United | ||||||
22 | States and abroad; he also enjoyed reading about history, | ||||||
23 | current events, and science of many kinds, and playing with his |
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1 | children, his granddaughter, and his cats; and
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2 | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan was preceded in death by his | ||||||
3 | parents; his sisters, Doris Ann Bradbury and Mary Ellen Hanley; | ||||||
4 | and his brother, David Hall Sullivan; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Jeremiah Sullivan is survived by his loving wife | ||||||
6 | of 54 years, Sheila Sullivan; his children, Maureen E. Sullivan | ||||||
7 | and Jeremiah J. (Jennifer) Sullivan; his granddaughter, Lily S. | ||||||
8 | Sullivan; and his nieces and nephews, Captain Timothy R. | ||||||
9 | (Marie) Hanley, United States Navy (Ret.), Mary K. Hanley (Ken | ||||||
10 | Scheffler), David L. (Carla) Bradbury, Karole L. Bradbury, and | ||||||
11 | Steven E. Bradbury; therefore, be it
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12 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
13 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | ||||||
14 | family and friends, mourn the passing of Jeremiah David | ||||||
15 | Sullivan; and be it further
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16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
17 | presented to the family of Jeremiah Sullivan as an expression | ||||||
18 | of our sympathy.
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