List of awards and honours received by Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", the inventor of the World Wide Web, has received a number of awards and honours.
1995 (1995): Kilby Foundation's "Young Innovator of the Year" Award.
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1995 (1995): Distinguished Fellow of the (DFBCS)
British Computer Society
2001 (2001): Elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
2002 (2002): (Royal Society of Arts)
Albert Medal
2003 (2003): The 's Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution which has resulted in an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense.[11]
Royal Photographic Society
2003 (2003): Received the 's Fellow Award, for his seminal contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.[12]
Computer History Museum
15 April 2004 (2004-04-15): First recipient of Finland's , for inventing the World Wide Web. The cash prize, worth one million euros (about £678,701, or US$1.24 million, in 2004[13]), was awarded on 15 June, in Helsinki, Finland, by the President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen.[14]
Millennium Technology Prize
27 January 2005 (2005-01-27): Named Greatest Briton of 2004, both for his achievements and for displaying the key British characteristics of "diffidence, determination, a sharp sense of humour and adaptability", as put by , a panel member.[16]
David Hempleman-Adams
2006 (2006): Awarded the by the British Computer Society for his inventing the Internet[17]
Lovelace Medal
2007 (2007): Ranked Joint First, alongside , in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.[19]
Albert Hofmann
2008 (2008): , for "conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web".[21]
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
2 December 2008 (2008-12-02): Honorary doctorate, . His parents worked on the Manchester Mark 1 in the 1940s and 50s.[22]
University of Manchester
28 April 2009 (2009-04-28): Elected a foreign associate of the .
United States National Academy of Sciences
8 June 2009 (2009-06-08): for Lifetime Achievement, at the awards ceremony held in New York City.[24]
Webby Award
30 March 2011 (30 March 2011): One of the first three recipients of the award for "The Man Who Changed the World".[28]
Mikhail Gorbachev
2011 (2011): Inducted into ' AI's Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".[30]
IEEE Intelligent Systems
27 July 2012 (2012-07-27): Recognised for the invention of the World Wide Web in the .[32]
2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
2013 (2013): One of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural .[33]
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
13 September 2013 (13 September 2013): Honorary degree, University of St Andrews.[34]
Doctor of Science
19 May 2014 (2014-05-19): Honorary Doctor of Engineering and Technology degree, .[35]
Yale University
7 December 2014 (2014-12-07): that was shared with Jimmy Wales.[39]
Mohammed bin Rashid Knowledge Award
8 February 2016: John Maynard Keynes Prize
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4 April 2017 (2017-04-04): 2016 "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale"[42]
Turing Award
1997 (1997): Appointed an (OBE) "for services to global computer networking".[46]
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
2004 (2004): Promoted to (KBE) in the New Year Honours "for services to the global development of the Internet". Formally invested on 16 July 2004.[47][48]
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
13 June 2007 (2007-06-13): Appointed a member of the (OM), an order restricted to 24 (living) members.[49] (The Order of Merit is within the personal gift of The Queen, and does not require recommendation by ministers or the Prime Minister)
Order of Merit
Tim Berners Lee has received two awards of which the date are unknown. These are:
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