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There may be no higher compliment paid a teacher by a former student than the one Princeton University biologist and Nobel laureate Eric Wieschaus ’69 gave his old Notre Dame professor a few years ago when he told Vanderbilt Medical Center’s _Lens_ magazine how “*Harvey Bender* showed me it was possible to have a good life as a scientist.” Bender, a genetics expert whose _Drosophila_ laboratory at Notre Dame was an early proving ground for Wieschaus’ prizewinning work in the embryology of the infamous fruit fly, died in October 2011 at age 78.