Google Doodle honours Sir Arthur Lewis
Article by December 10, 2020
SOURCE: Loop News St Lucia – St Lucia’s Nobel Laureate, economist and professor Sir William Arthur Lewis is being celebrated by Google 41 years after he was awarded the Nobel Laureate Prize in economics.
Lewis was the first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics, the 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.
According to Google, the Doodle which was illustrated by Manchester-based guest artist Camilla Ru, was created to mark this day in 1979 when Lewis was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work to model the economic forces that impact developing countries.
Google is honouring economist, professor, and author Sir W Arthur Lewis with a doodle today, illustrated by Manchester-based artist Camilla Ru. In 1979, on this day, Sir W Arthur Lewis was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work to model the economic forces that impact developing countries. One of the pioneers in the field of modern development economics, Sir Lewis was the first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics, first Black person to hold a chair in a British university, and the first Black instructor to receive full professorship at Princeton University.
What was Sir Arthur Lewis contribution to economics?
An acclaimed economist, Sir W Arthur Lewis was celebrated for his contributions in the field of economic development. Google celebrated him with a doodle today.
Google Doodle celebrates Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir William Arthur Lewis
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a pioneer in the field of modern development economics and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. Google Doodle of Sir William Arthur Lewis (Image: Google)
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Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 10:04 AM IST
Google on December 10 featured Nobel Prize-winning St Lucian economist and professor, Sir William Arthur Lewis, through Google Doodle on its homepage.
The doodle is illustrated by Manchester-based guest artist Camilla Ru. It shows Lewis smiling in front of a blackboard, which has a graph drawn over it along with the word Google in the standard digital-7 font.
Sir W. Arthur Lewis Google Doodle: Forty-one years ago 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.