Tim Berners Lee

Timothy John Berners-Lee is a britanic engineer and computer scientist born on June 8th 1955. He is mostly known for the invention of the Worl Wide Web.

Biography

Berners-Lee was born in London, England, United Kingdom, he is the son of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee. His parents worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class bachelor of arts degree in physics. Berners-Lee was first married to Nancy Carlson in 1990; they had two children and divorced in 2011. In 2014, he married Rosemary Leith who is director of the World Wide Web Foundation and a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center.

Distinctions

Sir Berners-Lee received several awards and honors.

Honors

Award	Date
Distinguished fellowship of the British Computer Society (DFBCS)	1995
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)	2001
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)	2001
Knight commander of the British Empire (KBE)	2004
Turing Award	2016

Apart from those distinctions, he received honors from universities such as Manchester, Harvard and Yale.

Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet

https://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/