Five men behind the invention of the world wide web – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn and Louis Pouzin – have been awarded the £1m Queen Elizabeth prize.
The new prize recognises fundamentally important inventions in the field of engineering. Engineers do not have a Nobel Prize, the highest award for achievement in science and the arts, so the Queen Elizabeth Prize was devised to ensure that engineers receive recognition for their game-changing work. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a Briton behind the invention of…
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