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Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee

Founder · World Wide Web Consortium · born June 8, 1955

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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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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~35Notable work: HTTP1990
  2. ~38Notable work: HTML1993
  3. 39Founded World Wide Web ConsortiumOctober 1, 1994
  4. ~43Named MacArthur Fellows Program1998
  5. ~45Received the Royal Medal2000
  6. ~46Received the Fellow of the Royal Society2001
  7. ~46Received the Japan Prize2001
  8. 52Received the Order of MeritJune 13, 2007
  9. ~61Received the Turing Award2016

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Nicky Oppenheimer

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1945 · South Africa

$7.3Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

Nicholas "Nicky" Frank Oppenheimer is a South African billionaire businessman. He was formerly the chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company, and former deputy chairman of Anglo American.

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Scott Adams

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1957–2026 · United States

Scott Raymond Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and commentator. He is best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.

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Francis Crick

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1916–2004 · United Kingdom

Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.

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Robert Aumann

Scientist

1930 · United States

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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