Robin Osborn
Editor's Note: Last October I had the always rewarding experience of conversingwith Sol Levine as we participated in the annual meeting ofthe Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Investigator Awardsin Health Policy Research Program, which he directed. I hadnot known him long, but it did not take long to appreciate justhow rare an individual he was—towering as both a healthpolicy scholar and as a human being. Like so many in the field,I was stunned and saddened just a month later to turn a pageof the New York Times and see his visage peering out from anobituary that announced his most untimely death from a suddenheart attack. Robin Osborn, who worked closely with Sol as thedeputy director of the Investigator Awards program, describesbelow the personal and intellectual qualities of this trulyeffervescent leading figure in the field.