Editing Tim Berners-Lee (section)

===Awards and honours===
{{main|List of awards and honours received by Tim Berners-Lee}}
{{Quote box|width=30%|align=right|quote="He wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century. The World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free."|source=—Tim Berners-Lee's entry in ''Time'' magazine's list of the [[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century|100 Most Important People of the 20th century]], March 1999.<ref name="Time"/>}}

Berners-Lee has received many awards and honours. He was [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom|knighted]] by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] in the [[2004 New Year Honours]] "for services to the global development of the Internet", and was invested formally on 16 July 2004.<ref name="tecb" /><ref name="knighted" />

On 13 June 2007, he was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]] (OM), an order restricted to 24 living members, plus any honorary members.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=25 May 2008|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6750395.stm|title=Web inventor gets Queen's honour|publisher=BBC |date=13 June 2007}}</ref> Bestowing membership of the Order of Merit is within the personal purview of the Sovereign and does not require recommendation by ministers or the Prime Minister.

He was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2001|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2001]].<ref name=frs>{{cite web|title=Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015185820/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml|archive-date=15 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also elected as a member into the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2004<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Tim+Berners-Lee&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=14 June 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Engineering]] in 2007.

He has been conferred honorary degrees from a number of universities around the world, including [[University of Manchester|Manchester]] (his parents worked on the [[Manchester Mark 1]] in the 1940s), [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Scientific pioneers honoured by The University of Manchester |url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=4216 |work=manchester.ac.uk |date=2 December 2008 |access-date=28 May 2016 |archive-date=22 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022073226/http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=4216 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://news.yale.edu/2014/05/19/yale-awards-12-honorary-degrees-2014-graduation "Yale awards 12 honorary degrees at 2014 graduation"]. ''Yale News'', 19 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2016.</ref><ref>[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/harvard-to-award-nine-honorary-degrees/#berners-lee "Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees"], ''Harvard Gazette'', 26 May 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2016.</ref>

In 2012, Berners-Lee was among the [[Culture of the United Kingdom|British cultural icons]] selected by artist [[Peter Blake (artist)|Sir Peter Blake]] to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th birthday.<ref>{{cite news|title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday|first=Caroline |last=Davies|url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited|work=The Guardian|date=5 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Sir Peter Blake's new Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album cover|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17583026|work=BBC|date=2 April 2012|access-date=9 November 2016}}</ref>

In 2013, he was awarded the inaugural [[Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://webfoundation.org/2013/03/sir-tim-berners-lee-receives-inaugural-queen-elizabeth-prize-for-engineering/|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee Receives Inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, 2013|date=18 March 2013|publisher=Web foundation.org}}</ref> On 4 April 2017, he received the 2016 [[Association for Computing Machinery]]'s [[Turing Award]] for his invention of the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and their fundamental protocols and algorithms.<ref name="Asso. Computing Machinery-2016">{{cite web|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/berners-lee_8087960.cfm|title=A. M. Turing Award|date=2016|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref>