Jane Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3rd April 1934) Jane Goodall is a British primatologist and philanthropist best known for her expertise on chimpanzees.
Childhood: Jane Goodall was born in London, England. Her parents were businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall and writer Margaret Myfanwe Joseph. Her interest in chimpanzees began when she received a toy chimp as a child which she named Jubilee.
Career: Jane Goodall worked as a secretary in Kenya as a teenager, for a palaeontologist called Louis Leakey. He subsequently sent her to a London school to study primates before funding her trip to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to practise her work. Later, he paid for her to study for a Ph.D in Ethology at Cambridge University. Jane worked at Gombe for 45 years. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program in 1977 and 1991 respectively, which aim to protect primates and their habitats. She was formerly the president of Advocates for Animals and is now a Disneynature ambassador as well as being on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004.
Personal life: Jane Goodall married her first husband, photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick, in 1964. They had a son named Hugo Eric Louis but divorced in 1974. Soon after, she married Tanzanian politician Derek Bryceson, who died in 1980 but helped protect Jane's work with primates.
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