Two Britons and a Pole have been named winners of the Japan Prize for 2002 for their contributions to science and technology research, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan announced on Thursday.
In the field of system science and technology, Tim Berners-Lee, 46, a senior British researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Computer Science, was selected for inventing the World Wide Web.
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