Internet and web pioneers win 'Nobel for engineering'
The inventors of the internet and the world wide web have won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize - the Nobel-style award for engineering launched in the UK.
The five engineers, who include the British creator of the web, Sir Tim-Berners Lee, were revealed as the inaugural winners of the £1m prize at a ceremony at the Royal Academy of Engineering on Monday afternoon.
French engineer Louis Pouzin and Americans Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, whose work led to the protocols that enable the internet to work, and the American creator of the first web browser, Marc Andreessen, completed the group honoured by an international panel of judges.
Engineering is not as well recognised in the Western world as other professions
Robert Kahn
‘These five visionary engineers, never before honoured together as a group, led the key developments that shaped the internet and web as a coherent system and brought them into public use,’ said chair of judges Lord Broers.
The already well-decorated Kahn, who appeared with Pouzin in person to receive the award, told The Engineer he couldn’t compare it to other prizes he had won.
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