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.
| Award | Date |
|---|---|
| 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.