CERN's Robert Cailliau (centre) receives the Genève
Reconnaissante medal from town mayor and physicist Alain Vaissade
(left) at a ceremony held on 15 May. On the right is the secretary-general of
Geneva's Administrative Council, Jean Erhardt.Geneva has been
honouring those who have contributed to the reputation of the city in this way
since 1932. This year it selected Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau for their
work on the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee, who was unable to be present,
invented the Web at CERN just over a decade ago, and Cailliau was his first
collaborator. This was the first time that the Genève Reconnaissante medal
had been presented for a technological development.
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