List of black Nobel Laureates
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The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.[1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals,[2] of whom 15 have been Black.[citation needed]
Blacks have been the recipients of three of the six awards: Peace, Literature and Economics. The first Black recipient, Ralph Bunche, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1950. The most recent, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, were awarded their Peace prizes in 2011.
Three Black laureates —Anwar Sadat, Barack Obama and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf— were Presidents of their countries when they were awarded the prize.
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[edit] Laureates
| Year | Image | Laureate | Country | Category | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 |  |
Ralph Bunche | United States | Peace | First African American to win a Nobel Prize[3] |
| 1960 | .jpg) |
Albert John Luthuli | South Africa | Peace | First black African to win a Nobel Prize |
| 1964 |  |
Martin Luther King, Jr | United States | Peace | The youngest African American to win a Nobel Prize |
| 1978 |  |
Anwar El Sadat | Egypt | Peace | Sadat's "blackness" was a matter of some controversy; he was the son of a Sudanese mother and a lighter-skinned Egyptian father. The Egyptian government protested when the African American Louis Gossett, Jr. played him in the TV miniseries Sadat. Sadat himself commented, "I am not white but I am not exactly black either. My blackness is tending to reddish."[4] |
| 1979 | .jpg) |
Sir William Arthur Lewis | Saint Lucia | Economics | First and (so far) only black person to win a Nobel Prize other than Peace or Literature; first West Indian to win a Nobel Prize[5] |
| 1984 |  |
Desmond Tutu | South Africa | Peace | |
| 1986 | .jpg) |
Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Literature | First black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature[6] |
| 1992 |  |
Derek Walcott | Saint Lucia | Literature | |
| 1993 |  |
Toni Morrison | United States | Literature | First black woman to win a Nobel Prize[7] |
| 1993 |  |
Nelson Mandela | South Africa | Peace | |
| 2001 |  |
Kofi Annan | Ghana | Peace | |
| 2004 |  |
Wangari Maathai | Kenya | Peace | |
| 2009 |  |
Barack Obama | United States | Peace | |
| 2011 |  |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (shared with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakel Karman) |
Liberia | Peace | |
| 2011 |  |
Leymah Gbowee (shared with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakel Karman) |
Liberia | Peace |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online:
An additional award, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969
- ^ "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/all/. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
- ^ Ralph Bunche, PBS.
- ^ Anwar Sadat: Visionary Who Dared By Joseph Finklestone pages 5–7,31 ISBN 0-7146-3487-5
- ^ "Unsung Heroes". Time. 2007-12-01. http://www.time.com/time/2007/blackhistmth/bios/09.html. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
- ^ "Wole Soyinka Biography". Nobelprize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/soyinka-bio.html.
- ^ Grimes, William (1983-10-08). "Toni Morrison Is '93 Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/08/books/93nobel.html. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
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