Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (http/html) not the internet.
The Americans Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn invented tcp/ip, the basis of the internet.
Sir Joseph John Thomson OM FRS[1] (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.