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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 356,327 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Robert Cailliau is the 163rd most popular inventor (down from 151st in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 212th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Cailliau ranks 163 out of 354Before him are Paul Baran, Joseph Monier, Uziel Gal, Charles Martin Hall, Guillaume Amontons, and Orban. After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Charles Cros, David Edward Hughes, Siegfried Marcus, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Robert Cailliau ranks 140Before him are Ángel Nieto, Kevin Farrell, Greg Lake, Su Tseng-chang, Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, and H. Robert Horvitz. After him are Branko Oblak, Yukiya Amano, Włodzimierz Lubański, Jaume Cabré, Nevio Scala, and Ben Cross.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 242 out of 1,019Before him are Rik Van Steenbergen (1924), Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851), Johannes Ciconia (1370), Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728), Frans Masereel (1889), and Philippe Thys (1889). After him are Romelu Lukaku (1993), Henry III, Duke of Brabant (1231), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Emile Vandervelde (1866), Leo Tindemans (1922), and John II, Duke of Brabant (1275).

Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Robert Cailliau ranks 5Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), Jacques Piccard (1922), Zénobe Gramme (1826), and Paul Otlet (1868). After him are George Washington (1871).