Proper noun (person)
Tim Berners-Lee
(born June 8, 1955) Englishman known as the father of the World Wide Web; he first proposed, and then built a global hypertext project based on URIs, HTTP and HTML; he later founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004
Tim Berners-Lee was knighted because of his remarkable invention, the World Wide Web.