Is Tim Berners Lee Alive? Know Tim Berners Lee Age, Early Life, Career, Bio, Awards, And More

Is Tim Berners Lee Alive: Tim Berners is a popular computer scientist who is known for inventing the World Wide Web and if you are wondering Is Tim Berners Lee Alive, you are at the right place. Read on to find out more about Is Tim Berners Lee Alive or not and get all the details.

by P Nandhini

Updated Jun 20, 2022

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Is Tim Berners Lee Alive? Know Tim Berners Lee Age, Early Life, Career, Bio, Awards, And More
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Is Tim Berners Lee Alive?

Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England, on the 8th of June, 1955. He is a computer scientist, engineer, educator, inventor, and the founder of the World Wide Web (WWW). He is one of the few living inventors, having reached the age of 66. Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web (WWW), as well as the web browser and the hypertext transfer protocol. Several awards were bestowed upon him, including the Millennium Technology Prize, the President's Medal, and the Japan Prize, among others. Continue reading to find out more about Tim Berners. Yes, Tim Berners is still alive at the age of 67.

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Tim Berners Biography

Specifications

Details

Real Name/Birth Name

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA DFBCS

By Name

Tim Berners-Lee

Male/Female

Male

Profession

English engineer and computer scientist

Nationality

British

Born In

London, United Kingdom

Birth Date

8 June, 1955

Age as in 2022

67 years old

Heights

1.68 m

Heights in Feet

5 feet and 6 inches

Weight

68 kg

Marital Status

Married

Spouse

Rosemary Leith (m. 2014), Nancy Carlson (m. 1990 to 2011)

Children

Yes (Ben Berners-Lee,Alice Berners-Lee)

Net Worth

$15 million

Tim Berners Lee Awards

Berners-Lee has received numerous accolades and prizes. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001 and was awarded the Order of Merit by the Queen in 2007. He has received honorary degrees from Manchester, Yale, and Harvard Universities. He was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2009. The ACM A.M. Turing Award was given to him in 2016 for "creating the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the underlying protocols and algorithms that allow the Web to scale." He was also named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Important of the Century.

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  • 1994: Became one of six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame.

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

  • 1995: The Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

  • 1995: Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS)

  • 1996: Honorary degree, University of Southampton.

  • 1998: Honorary doctorate, University of Essex.

  • 1998: The USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, USENIX.

  • 1999: One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.

  • March 2000: Honorary degree, The Open University as Doctor of the University.

  • 2001: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

  • 2001: Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • 2002: Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)

  • 2002: Named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote.

  • 2003: The Royal Photographic Society's Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution

  • 2003: Received the Computer History Museum's Fellow Award, for his seminal contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.

  • 15 April 2004: First recipient of Finland's Millennium Technology Prize, for inventing the World Wide Web. 

  • July 21, 2004: Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Lancaster University.

  • 27 January 2005: 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".

  • 2006: Awarded the Lovelace Medal by the British Computer Society for his inventing the Internet

  • 2006: Won President's Medal of the IOP

  • 2007: Ranked Joint First, alongside Albert Hofmann, in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.

  • 2007: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement

  • 2008: IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, for "conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web"

  • 2 December 2008: Honorary doctorate, University of Manchester. His parents worked on the Manchester Mark 1 in the 1940s and 50s.

  • 21 April 2009: Honorary doctorate, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

  • 28 April 2009: Elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

  • 8 June 2009: Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement, at the awards ceremony held in New York City.

  • October 2009: Honorary doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • 14 September 2010: Awarded UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal 

  • 30 March 2011: One of the first three recipients of the Mikhail Gorbachev award for "The Man Who Changed the World".

  • 26 May 2011: Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Harvard University

  • 2011: Inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".

  • 2012: Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

  • 27 July 2012: Recognised for the invention of the World Wide Web in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

  • 2013: One of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

  • 13 September 2013: Honorary Doctor of Science degree, University of St Andrews.

  • 19 May 2014: Honorary Doctor of Engineering and Technology degree, Yale University.

  • 24 May 2014: Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

  • 24 September 2014: Honorary Freedom of the City of London.

  • 6 October 2014: Pride of Britain "Special Award for Outstanding Achievement".

  • 7 December 2014: Mohammed bin Rashid Knowledge Award that was shared with Jimmy Wales.

  • 29 April 2015: Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in Zurich, Switzerland

  • 8 February 2016: John Maynard Keynes Prize 

  • 4 April 2017: 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale"

Tim Berners Lee Career

Bernes-Lee worked for Plessey in Poole, Dorset, as an engineer. In June 1980, he began working as an independent contractor at CERN before joining incumbent John Poole's Image Computer Systems in Bournemouth. Before going to CERN in 1984, he obtained an understanding of computer networking. He is the director of the WWW (World Wide Web) Consortium and the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium. He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. He is a senior researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and holds the Founder's Chair. Berners-Lee was one of the British iconic figures chosen by artist Sir Peter Blake to star in a new edition of his most renowned artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to commemorate his 80th birthday by honoring the British cultural figures he most loves.

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When Was Tim Berners Lee Born?

Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955, in London, England, to Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee, the eldest of four children. His brother Mike is a professor of ecology and climate change management. His parents were computer experts who pioneered the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially made computer. He learned about electronics via fiddling with a model railway as a child, when he was an avid trainspotter. Berners-Lee built a computer out of an old television set he purchased from a repair center while at university.

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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee Om Kbe Frs Freng Frsa Fbcs is the full name of this English engineer and computer scientist. Tim Berners-Lee is a nickname given to him by his friends and family. Tim Berners-Lee is 1.68 meters tall. He weighs roughly 68 kilograms. Tim Berners-Lee has a net worth of $15 million.

Tim Berners Lee Early Life

Tim Berners-Lee is a brilliant programmer and computer scientist. He is from England and is known as TimBL. He is the mastermind behind the fantastic WWW (World Wide Web). He was raised as an Anglican but drifted away from religion as a child. He attended Sheen Mount Primary School in London, England, where he was born. From 1969 to 1973, he went to the Emanuel School in London before enrolling in Queen's College, Oxford, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics, which he received in first class.

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Tim Berners Personal Life

Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods were his parents. In 1990, he married Nancy Carlson. Despite the fact that the couple separated in 2011, they have two children together. He married Rosemary Leith, the director of the WWW (World Wide Web) Foundation, and a fellow at Harvard University's Palace in London, for the second time in 2014. There is no other information available regarding Tim Berners' personal life. However, we will keep you updated as soon as it becomes available. 

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Is Tim Berners Lee Alive - FAQs

1. What is Tim Berners famous for?

He is generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web

2. How rich is Tim Berners-Lee?

The computer scientist has a net worth of $15 million.

3. What is Tim Berners-Lee Real Name?

Tim Berners' real name is Timothy John Berners-Lee

4. How Old is Tim Berners-Lee?

Tim Berners-Lee is 67 years old

5. Who is Tim Berners-Lee Married to?

Tim Berners-Lee is married to Rosemary Leith since 2014

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