Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
Now called Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the 49-year-old British citizen lives in the United States and works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a senior research scientist. He was knighted in recognition of his “services to the global development of the Internet” through his invention of the World Wide Web, a system to organize, link, and browse Internet pages.
