Jane Goodall

(www.janegoodall.org)

Jane Goodall was born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, April 3, 1934 in London, England. She is an anthropologist and a primatologist. She is most well known for her work with chimpanzees in Africa.

Jane Goodall was known as a "Trimate". Trimates were 3 leading researchers in primatology. She was named a United Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan. She is an Officer of the French Legion of Honor. She has been awarded the Medal of Tanzania, she has gotten National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, and the esteemed Japan's Kyoto Prize.

Jane Goodall with a chimp. (www.stonyfield.com/.../ CelebritiesInTheMoos.cfm)

Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation. They attempt to help save chimpanzees and their homes. She also has community based conservation and development programs. And, along with her Roots and Shoots organization, they have programs in more than 70 countries!

Jane holding chimp. (http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring05articles/drjane-goodall.html)

Goodall has been married three times. She married her first husband Hugo van Lawick, a photographer, in March 1964. They had one son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick. She then got a divorce in 1974. She was remarried to Derek Bryceson, a Tanzanian politician, in 1975. She remained married to him until his death (from cancer) in 1980.

Jane Goodall is a very important person in our world today. She has made, and probably will continue to make, significant advancements in primatology and anthropology today. She has traveled all over the world making numbers of discoveries. She truly is an asset to her field of work.