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Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is a British software engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 while at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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Is a
Person
Person
Also Known As
TBL
Tim Berners
TimBL
Author of
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The WWW virtual library
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Awards Received
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2016 Turing Award
Birth Name
Timothy John Berners-Lee
CEO of
Jolofcoin
Jolofcoin
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Child of
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Mary Lee Woods
Conway Berners-Lee
Conway Berners-Lee
Crunchbase URL
crunchbase.com/person/...ners-lee
Birthdate
June 8, 1955
Educated at
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Emanuel School
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
Father
Conway Berners-Lee
Conway Berners-Lee
Founder of
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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World Wide Web Foundation
Invested in
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo
ISNI
0000000078666209
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Location
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Mother
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Mary Lee Woods
Nationality
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Notable Work
HTML
HTML
WorldWideWeb
WorldWideWeb
Web server
Web server
World Wide Web
World Wide Web
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Semantic Web
Semantic Web
Occupation
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Web developer
Author
Author
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Computer scientist
Computer scientist
Scientist
Scientist
Engineer
Engineer
Programmer
Programmer
Writer
Writer
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Physicist
Physicist
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Inventor
Open Library ID
OL25245A
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ORCID
0000-0003-1279-3709
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Birthplace
London
London
Spouse
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Rosemary Leith
Twitter URL
@timberners_lee
VIAF
85312226
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Official Website
w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
Wikidata ID
Q80

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