FAME '10 Decades Project - 1990's

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England. He attended Sheen Mount primary school, and then went on Emanuel School in London, from 1969 to 1973. He studied at The Queen's College, oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class degree in Physics.
 
In 1994, Berners-Lee funded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. It compromised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that they could easily be adopted anyone.
 
He's an important science figure because he found W3C, which helped improve the Web.