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Contributor(s): Sue Donnelly
Released on 24 February 2015
2015 marks the centenary of the birth of Arthur Lewis, LSE’s first black academic and the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979. LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly discusses Lewis’s achievements at the School, the academics who influenced him the most and how the Second World War boosted his career.
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