Obituary: Warren J. Samuels, Founding Editor

Warren J. Samuels, who died on August 17, 2011 at his home in Gainesville, Florida, was the founding editor of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. The current editors had planned to include a note regarding Samuels’ initiation of the research annual in the first volume that did not include his name among the editors on the masthead. Unfortunately, that volume is also the one in which we must memorialize him. The history of economics community has lost one of its leaders; the editors of this research annual have lost the sure hand of their mentor and guide.