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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", the inventor of the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web ...

, has received a number of awards and honours.

Awards

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. * in Zurich, Switzerland * 8 February 2016: John Maynard Keynes Prize *

National honours

* * * (The Order of Merit is within the personal gift of The Queen, and does not require recommendation by ministers or the Prime Minister) * * (decree signed on 4 February 2015). Tim Berners Lee has received two awards of which the date are unknown. These are: *

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from aroun ...

(FREng) *

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...

(FRSA)

References

External links

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