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Robert Cailliau

1947 - Today

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Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Cailliau is the 149th most popular inventor (down from 138th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 194th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Cailliau ranks 149 out of 426. Before him are Cornelis Drebbel, John Kay, Robert Stirling, Peter Cooper, Siegfried Marcus, and Richard Jordan Gatling. After him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Henri Giffard, Mary Anderson, Peter Henlein, Robert Moog, and Friedrich Zander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Robert Cailliau ranks 157. Before him are Anne Wiazemsky, Nevio Scala, Nancy Fraser, Somchai Wongsawat, Henri Michel, and Marisa Berenson. After him are Yukiya Amano, Rob Reiner, Kathrine Switzer, Rod Evans, Joe Wilson, and Jozef De Kesel.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 222 out of 1,190. Before him are Roelant Savery (1576), Wilfried Martens (1936), Lutgardis (1182), Hubert Pierlot (1883), Juan de Flandes (1450), and Théophile de Donder (1872). After him are Pierre Deligne (1944), Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797), Adeliza of Louvain (1103), Jacob van Artevelde (1290), Adrien de Gerlache (1866), and Frans Masereel (1889).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 6. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacques Piccard (1922), Paul Otlet (1868), and Zénobe Gramme (1826). After him are George Washington (1871).

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