Jane Goodall

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Also Known As	Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall • Dame Jane Goodall
Born	April 3, 1934 (age 90) • London • England
Awards And Honors	Presidential Medal of Freedom (2025) • Templeton Prize (2021)
Notable Works	“In the Shadow of Man”
Subjects Of Study	chimpanzee

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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Dutch zoologist

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

British naturalist

Lancelot Thomas Hogben

English scientist

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

British biologist and writer

Peter B. Medawar, 1960.

Sir Peter B. Medawar

British zoologist

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 1930.

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

British zoologist

C. Lloyd Morgan

British zoologist and psychologist

Francis Maitland Balfour

Francis Maitland Balfour

British zoologist

Newton, Alfred

Alfred Newton

British zoologist

Flower, 1883

Sir William Henry Flower

British zoologist

Sir James Gray

British zoologist

David Lambert Lack

British author and ornithologist

Reginald Innes Pocock

English zoologist

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

South African archbishop

Bob Hope

Bob Hope

American actor and entertainer

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

Belgian-born British actress

Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour

British editor

Martin Rees

Martin Rees

British cosmologist and astrophysicist

Arthur Peacocke

British biochemist and theologian

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

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Jane Goodall. British ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall (b. 1934) with chimpanzee Freud at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Goodall researches the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

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