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Tim Berners-Lee

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q697762&amp;oldid=2527128286" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Prix Ars Electronica · dated 1995
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q466&amp;oldid=2560042901" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Wide Web
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q37033&amp;oldid=2516869631" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Wide Web Consortium
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q73094&amp;oldid=2547678979" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Queen&#39;s College · from 1973 · to 1976
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q2536791&amp;oldid=2475630508" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">W. Wallace McDowell Award · dated 1996
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q590890&amp;oldid=2549141161" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WorldWideWeb

Wikidata describes Tim Berners-Lee as English computer scientist (born 1955).

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