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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, On January 31, 2000, President William J.
3 Clinton named Stuart Rice of the University of Chicago a
4 recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Science; and
5 WHEREAS, The Frank Hixon Distinguished Service Professor
6 in Chemistry, Stuart Rice also has received the University's
7 Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; and
8 WHEREAS, He is known to be outstandingly creative as a
9 researcher who has contributed in deep and important ways to
10 the educational enterprise at the University and to the
11 scientific community in the United States and throughout the
12 world; and
13 WHEREAS, Professor Stuart Rice, a Chicago faculty member
14 since 1957, was cited for changing the very nature of modern
15 physical chemistry through his research, teaching and
16 writing, and for using imaginative approaches to both
17 experiment and theory that have inspired a generation of
18 scientists; and
19 WHEREAS, Professor Rice has worked in virtually every
20 area of physical chemistry, he has made bold theoretical
21 predictions that met early opposition from his colleagues;
22 these ideas were later verified in experiments conducted in
23 some cases by the skeptics themselves; and
24 WHEREAS, Professor Rice has helped to shape science
25 policy at the University and throughout the nation as Dean of
26 Physical Sciences from 1981 to 1995 and as a member of the
27 National Science Board from 1980 to 1986; and
28 WHEREAS, Professor Stuart Rice has earned the respect and
29 admiration of all who have had the privilege of knowing him;
30 therefore, be it
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1 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
2 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
3 we congratulate Professor Stuart Rice on being named a
4 recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Science; and be it
5 further
6 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
7 presented to Professor Stuart Rice.