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Tim Berners-Lee

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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November. He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tim Berners-Lee is the 5th most popular computer scientist (down from 3rd in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Computer Scientist.

Tim Berners-Lee is most famous for inventing the World Wide Web. He is also a founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Tim Berners-Lee ranks 5 out of 245. Before him are Alan Turing, Richard Stallman, Grace Hopper, and Satoshi Nakamoto. After him are John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Tim Berners-Lee ranks 14. Before him are Michel Platini, Kevin Costner, Rowan Atkinson, Pietro Parolin, Bill Paxton, and Jair Bolsonaro. After him are Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Ornella Muti, Akira Toriyama, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and Willem Dafoe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tim Berners-Lee ranks 322 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Robert Shaw (1927), Kate Bush (1958), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944). After him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Francis Crick (1916), Ben Kingsley (1943), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), and Anthony Eden (1897).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, Tim Berners-Lee ranks 2. Before him are Alan Turing (1912). After him are Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), Paul Graham (1964), James H. Wilkinson (1919), Martin Fowler (1963), Robin Milner (1934), Alan Cox (1968), Stephen Wolfram (1959), and Karen Spärck Jones (1935).

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