Sir W. Arthur Lewis Google Doodle: Forty-one years back on this day in 1979, Lewis was together granted the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work to demonstrate the economic powers that effect developing countries.

Google is celebrating St. Lucian economist, professor, and author Sir W. Arthur Lewis, who is considered as one of the pioneers in the field of present day improvement economics, with its doodle on Thursday. Its represented by Manchester-based visitor artist Camilla Ru.

41 years back on this day in 1979, Lewis was together awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work to show the economic powers that effect developing countries.

A trailblazer not just in his research, Lewis was additionally the first Black employee at the London School of Economics, first Black individual to hold a seat in a British university (at Manchester University), and the first Black educator to get full residency at Princeton University.

Born on January 23, 1915, in Castries on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, at the time a British settlement, Lewis won an government scholarship in 1932 regardless of confronting difficulties with racial discrimination.

He went to study at the London School of Economics, where he at last procured a doctorate in industrial economics. Lewis immediately rose the positions of the scholarly world and by 33 was a full teacher—perhaps the most distinctions of a tenured educator.

Lewis moved his concentration to world monetary history and economic turn of events and in 1954 distributed his foundational article “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour.”

Among numerous significant achievements, Lewis contributed influential work to the United Nations and shared his ability as a counselor to governments in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. He likewise settled and filled in as the first president of the Caribbean Development Bank.

To pay tribute to his long lasting accomplishments, the British government knighted Lewis in 1963.

He breathed his keep going on June 15, 1991 in Bridgetown, Barbados and was buried in the grounds of the St. Lucian community college named in his honor.