Mark Eyskens

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5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 64,958x

2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,664x

3. Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

   · 1995 · cited 39,596x

4. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,030x

5. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 30,827x

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Quotes

• “Europe is an economic giant, a political dwarf, and a military worm.”
• “The journey was a real triumph. To the Congolese, he almost seemed like an extraterrestrial apparition. The reception was very warm and soon Boudewijn was nicknamed "Bwana Kitoko", "beautiful young man". The young king had a very good feeling about his first Congo experience. Some say it was the first time he laughed in public.”
• “I think King Baudouin was not dissatisfied with the disappearance of the man who broke off the 80-year-old relations between Belgium and Congo.”
• “The Belgian government's apologies to Lumumba's family are beside the point. According to the current foreign minister, Louis Michel, the then government should have insisted on a fair trial for Lumumba. But there was no government in Congo then, only chaos. The army mutinied through the provinces, Belgian troops were no longer there, only United Nations soldiers. They should have performed.”
• “During the Cold War, a division arose between Western and Communist countries. The countries that had just become independent after colonial times had to be kept on friendly terms. That is why Belgium offered development aid to those countries. The government also supported the work of the missionaries who were active in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, among others.”
• “Governments of developing countries sometimes proposed projects that did not directly benefit the population, but did benefit the government; the so-called 'white elephants'. For example, they wanted to build highways and build large buildings, while we thought it was better to focus on good education.”

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Key facts

Monarch

Baudouin

Deputy

Guy Mathot, Willy Claes , José Desmarets

Preceded by

Wilfried Martens

Succeeded by

Wilfried Martens

Prime minister

Wilfried Martens

Born

( 1933-04-29 ) 29 April 1933 (age 93) , Leuven , Belgium

Party

Christian Democratic and Flemish

Spouse

Anne Rutsaert

Alma mater

Catholic University of Leuven , Columbia University

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