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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.

1994 (1994): Became one of only six members of the .[1]

World Wide Web Hall of Fame

1995 (1995): Kilby Foundation's "Young Innovator of the Year" Award.

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1995 (1995): The from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[3]

Software System Award

1995 (1995): Distinguished Fellow of the (DFBCS)

British Computer Society

1996 (1996): Honorary degree, .[4]

University of Southampton

1998 (1998): Honorary doctorate, .[5]

University of Essex

1998 (1998): The USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, .[6]

USENIX

1999 (1999): named him one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.[7]

Time Magazine

March 2000 (2000-03): Honorary degree, as Doctor of the University.[8]

The Open University

2001 (2001): Elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society

2001 (2001): Elected a Fellow of the .[9]

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2002 (2002): (Royal Society of Arts)

Albert Medal

2002 (2002): Named in the 's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote.[10]

BBC

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

July 21, 2004 (2004-07-21): Honorary degree, Lancaster University.[15]

Doctor of Science

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

2006 (2006): Won [18]

President's Medal of the IOP

2007 (2007): Ranked Joint First, alongside , in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.[19]

Albert Hofmann

2007 (2007): Golden Plate Award of the [20]

American Academy of Achievement

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

21 April 2009 (2009-04-21): Honorary doctorate, .[23]

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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

October 2009 (2009-10): Honorary doctorate, [25][26]

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

14 September 2010 (14 September 2010): Awarded [27]

UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal

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

26 May 2011 (2011-05-26): Honorary degree, Harvard University.[29]

Doctor of Science

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

2012 (2012): Inducted into the by the Internet Society.[31]

Internet Hall of Fame

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

24 May 2014 (2014-05-24): Honorary Doctor of Science degree, .[36]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

24 September 2014 (2014-09-24): Honorary .[37]

Freedom of the City of London

6 October 2014 (2014-10-06): "Special Award for Outstanding Achievement".[38]

Pride of Britain

7 December 2014 (2014-12-07): that was shared with Jimmy Wales.[39]

Mohammed bin Rashid Knowledge Award

29 April 2015 (2015-04-29): [40] in Zurich, Switzerland

Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize

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

2022: for inventing the World Wide Web, supporting policies to address unequal Internet access, and aiming to decentralize user data with the Solid project.[43][44][45]

Seoul Peace Prize

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

3 December 2012 (2012-12-03): The Sultan Qaboos Order for Culture, Science and Arts (First Class), conferred by The Sultan of [50][51]

Oman

27 September 2015 (2015-09-27): (Class I) (decree signed on 4 February 2015).[52][53]

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana


Tim Berners Lee has received two awards of which the date are unknown. These are:

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