Google today celebrates professor, economist and author Sir W Arthur Lewis with a Doodle . Sir W Arthur Lewis was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics on this day 1979. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on the model about economic forces that impact developing countries. 

Arthur Lewis is considered as one of the pioneers in the field of modern development economics, with its doodle on Thursday Google celebrated his victory. It's illustrated by Manchester based guest artist Camilla Ru. Lewis 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. 

He is well known for his work in the fields of 

- Development Economics

- Dual Sector Model

-  Lewis Turning Point

-  Industrial Sector

-  History of the World Economy

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