List of black Nobel Laureates

The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. Another prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributors to the field of economics. Each prize is awarded by a separate committee. For example, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, the winners of the first Nobel Prizes were awarded 150,782 SEK, equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. In 2008, the winners were awarded a prize amount of 10,000,000 SEK. The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the 

anniversary of Nobel's death.

As of 2009, there have been 12 black Nobel laureates.

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Country	Category	Comment
1950		Ralph Bunche	United States	Peace	First black person to win a Nobel Prize
1960		Albert John Luthuli	South Africa	Peace	First black African to win a Nobel Prize
1964		Martin Luther King, Jr	United States	Peace	Youngest black man and second African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize
1979		Sir William Arthur Lewis	Saint Lucia	Economics	First black person to win a Nobel Prize other than Peace and first West Indian to win a Nobel Prize
1984		Desmond Tutu	South Africa	Peace	second South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
1986		Wole Soyinka	Nigeria	Literature	First black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and first Nigerian to win a Nobel Prize[8]
1992		Derek Walcott	Saint Lucia	Literature	First West Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and second West Indian (and Saint Lucian) to win a Nobel Prize
1993		Toni Morrison	United States	Literature	First black woman to win a Nobel Prize and first African American to win a Nobel Prize other than Peace
1993		Nelson Mandela	South Africa	Peace	third South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
2001		Kofi Annan	Ghana	Peace	first Ghanaian to win a Nobel Prize
2004		Wangari Maathai	Kenya	Peace	first black woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and first Kenyan to win a Nobel Prize
2009		Barack Obama	United States	Peace	Third African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize