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Born in 1934 into a prestigious family in nearby Lloyd Harbor, Harrison P. Dimple Jr. grew up in close contact with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Pretending to be Milislav Demerec's nephew (then director of the CSHL), he would often sneak into laboratories to discuss science with unsuspecting students and scientific staff. Some have speculated that a multicolored birthmark on young Harrison's back was inspiration for Barbara McClintock's groundbreaking work on maize genetics. Harrison went on to prestigious Princeton University but dropped out after only one semester, in protest of the "warmongering liberal environment" at the school. Instead he travelled extensively throughout central Asia where he became interested in Buddhism and dentistry, and developed his own brand of Pacifism based on the elimination of oral pain. After a failed attempt to spread his Dento-Pacifist philosophy through the use of fire and sword, he applied and was denied admission into several dental schools. This, however, did not deter 25 year-old Harrison. Determined to become a dentist, he spent many a night in the basement of the Columbia University Library devouring all the dentistry books he could get his hands on. Often practicing dental extractions on himself and confused family members, Harrison Dimple became one of the area's pre-eminent amateur dentists. He has been credited with the invention of the Dimple Extractor. He travelled the world showing off his virtuosity in oral extraction, and amassed the world's largest human tooth collection. Mr. Dimple also made a large fortune out of royalties arising from his Dimple Extractor. In the late 1960's Mr. Dimple returned to the Long Island of his childhood and became reacquainted with CSHL. In 1975 he donated his entire tooth collection (for "genetic studies") to the CSHL Library and for many years served as the unofficial "Lab Dentist", extracting teeth from underpaid graduate students and postdocs in the comfort of their own laboratory benches. While much controversy persists around the character of Mr. Dimple, and about the veracity of the stories told about his youth at CSHL, Mr. Dimple's legacy will live on in the minds and mouths of the CSHL community.