Tim Berners-Lee

Born: June 8th, 1955

Birthplace: London, England

Age: 70 years old

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Computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.

Awards & Honors

Internet Archive Hero award (2025)
ACM Fellow (2023)
Obedience Award (2017)
Axel Springer Award (2017)
Turing Award (2016)
Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class (2015)
OII Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Worthy of the City (2014)
honorary doctor of Yale University (2014)
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013)
Internet Hall of Fame (2012)
honorary doctor of Harvard University (2011)
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (2010)
Royal Designer for Industry (2009)
Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2009)
honorary doctor of the Open University of Catalonia (2008)
IEEE Maxwell Award (2008)
Charles Stark Draper Prize (2007)
Order of Merit (2007)
Lovelace Medal (2006)
President's Medal (2006)
Quadriga (2005)
Millennium Technology Prize (2004)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2004)
Computer History Museum fellow (2003)
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2002)
Marconi Prize (2002)
Albert Medal (2002)
Bodley Medal (2002)
Japan Prize (2001)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2001)
Sir Frank Whittle Medal (2001)
Royal Medal (2000)
EFF Award (2000)
Paul Evan Peters Award (2000)
honorary doctorate (2000)
Eduard-Rhein Technology Award (1998)
MacArthur Fellows Program (1998)
Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award (1998)
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1997) - World Wide Web
Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1997)
W. Wallace McDowell Award (1996)
Mountbatten Medal (1996)
Prix Ars Electronica (1995)
ACM Software System Award (1995) - World Wide Web
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
honorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid
honorary doctorate of Lancaster University
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Notable Works

Design Issues for the World Wide Web

HTTP (1990)

HTML (1993)

References

Tim Berners-Lee on Wikipedia

Added: November 16, 2025

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