The doodle of December 10, 2020, on Google home page celebrates noted black developmental economist Sir W. Arthur Lewis which has been done by Manchester-based guest artist Camilla Ru.
"A trailblazer not only in his research, he was also the first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics, first Black person to hold a chair in a British university (at Manchester University), and the first Black instructor to receive full professorship at Princeton University. On this day in 1979, Lewis was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work to model the economic forces that impact developing countries," informs the Google website.
It has been said that he shifted his focus to 'world economic history and economic development' and in 1954 published his foundational landmark article “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour.” The website added, "In honor of his lifelong achievements, the British government knighted Lewis in 1963."
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