Sir William Arthur Lewis
(1915 - 1991)

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Professor Sir Arthur Lewis in 1979 became the first black to receive a Nobel Prize for an Academic Subject

Professor Sir Arthur Lewis receiving his Nobel Prize from the King of Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf
December 1979

 

Sir Arthur accepts the Everybody's Magazine Award presented by former Prime Minister of Barbados - Tom Adams on behalf of the West Indies Community in New York in recognition of his Nobel Prize