Sir Tim: 2nd most important 20thC scientist

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"Berners-Lee elected not to patent the World Wide Web for commercial reasons or his own personal profit but gave it away for all of us," Klaus Riebschlaeger, chairman of the organising committee told Reuters. "Free and available to all humanity, it became the network for knowledge linking the world."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/18/berners_lee_award/

And a good thing he did. Still, second only to Einstein in 20th Century scientists? On the one hand, not sure I agree, on the other, can't think of anyone that rates more important off the top of my head. Hawking?

In other news, the proposals to re-introduce megafauna to the North American continent are interesting. Some of the comments on Slashdot made me chuckle though
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/18/1320228&from=rss
Especially this one