Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely studied them for decades in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa. Her observations and discoveries are internationally heralded, and her research and writings have made revolutionary inroads into scientific thinking regarding human evolution.
Goodall received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965. She has been the Scientific Director of the Gombe Stream Research Center since 1967. In 1984, Goodall received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for "helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet." Throughout the world, she tirelessly speaks on behalf of her career-long sponsor, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation.
In 1985, Jane Goodall's 25 years of anthropological and conservation research was published. She is also the author of Wild Chimpanzees and In the Shadow of Man.