After whom is the university at which Dirk Bootsma was professor between 1969 and 2002 named?
Dirk Bootsma Dirk Bootsma (born 1936) is a Dutch geneticist. He was a professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam between 1969 and 2002. He and his research group discovered the cause of chronic myelogenous leukemia and furthered the understanding of the nucleotide excision repair.
University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (German: "Universität Duisburg-Essen" ) is a public university in Duisburg and Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a member of the newly founded University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr. It was founded in 1654 and re-established on 1 January 2003 as a merger of the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg and the University of Essen. Until 1994 the name of the Gerhard Mercator University was "Comprehensive University of Duisburg".