Professor Sir Tim J Berners-Lee
FREng FRS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , as of Sep 2026
Fellow , Elected 2001 , Overseas , Academia
Listed by the Academy’s directory under World Wide Web Consortium
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP.
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- Identity
Confirmed (grade B) , the Academy’s directory lists them under Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a source names them there , RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026
Why we think this is them
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , records them as a Fellow of the Academy , names them at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RAEng directory , 11 Oct 2026 , lists them under Massachusetts Institute of Technology , lists them under World Wide Web Consortium
ccc.mit.edu , 11 Oct 2026 , names them with their organisation or field
w3.org , 11 Oct 2026 , names them with their organisation or field
- Directory entry, Listed under
RAEng directory , 30 Sep 2026 , read from the page , facts , high confidence
- Photo
Web Summit, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Sector
Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , inferred from the organisation , facts , medium confidence
- Summary
Wikipedia , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC BY-SA 4.0 , medium confidence
- Links
Wikipedia, Wikidata: Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence
Website: w3.org , 11 Oct 2026 , extracted by a language model , facts , low confidence
ORCID: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
ORCID: Wikidata , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , high confidence
OpenAlex: OpenAlex , 30 Sep 2026 , via API , CC0 , medium confidence