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Robert Cailliau

1947 - Today

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Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Cailliau has received more than 390,147 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Robert Cailliau is the 138th most popular inventor (up from 163rd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Inventor.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Cailliau ranks 138 out of 426. Before him are Gunther von Hagens, W. O. Bentley, Robert Moog, Zénobe Gramme, Paul Baran, and Paul Otlet. After him are John Ericsson, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Georg Luger, John Kay, Sequoyah, and Charles Algernon Parsons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Robert Cailliau ranks 117. Before him are Gyanendra of Nepal, Henri Michel, Jerzy Stuhr, Youn Yuh-jung, Temple Grandin, and Yukiya Amano. After him are Branko Oblak, Gérard Houllier, Jan Garbarek, Rod Evans, Saskia Sassen, and Marc Bolan.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 194 out of 1,190. Before him are Wilfried Martens (1936), Jacob van Artevelde (1290), Jacques Arcadelt (1507), Paul Otlet (1868), Eden Hazard (1991), and Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes (919). After him are Constantin Meunier (1831), Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1422), Juan de Flandes (1450), Theroigne de Mericourt (1762), Hugo Claus (1929), and Herbert Wimmer (1944).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 6. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacques Piccard (1922), Zénobe Gramme (1826), and Paul Otlet (1868). After him are George Washington (1871).

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