Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984, announced October 18, 1984. Richard Stone, “for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis”. Richard Stone: born 1913, London, United Kingdom. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).