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Jane Goodall

By vms83205

  • Birth

    Birth
    Jane Goodall was born April 3rd 1934 to Mortimer Herbert Goodall and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph. Her love for animals and their behavior started as soon as she learned to crawl. She would observe birds and animals watching/analyzing their behavior.

  • Secretary Position

    Secretary Position
    in 1957 Goodall moved to a friends farm in the kenya highlands and began working as a secretary for Louis Leakey. Louis leakey was a Kenyan archaeologist and palaeontologist and he was in need of a chimpanzee researcher. Louis then helped send Goodall to Tanzania.

  • To london

    To london
    In 1958 Leaky sent Jane with Osman HIll and John Napier to london to study primate behavior and primate anatomy. However, I put January 1st as the exact date, but this is unknown.

  • Trimates

    Trimates
    Leaky had raised funds to send Goodall with her mother to Gombe Stream National Park to become the first one of the triamates.

  • Her Study

    Her Study
    Jane Goodall returned to Africa and set up camp by the Gombe Stream reserve. Here she had to slowly earn the trust of chimpanzees and would eventually observe their interesting behaviors. She seen the chimps create tools with grassblades and sticks in order to eat the termites. She witnessed bonding behaviors, mating behaviors, dominance battles, eating habits, and on occasion cannabilism.

  • Cambridge University

    Cambridge University
    Leaky used funds he acquired to send Goodall to Cambridge University where she will earn a PhD degree in ethology. However, she had no degree to start with, but became the 8th person allowed to study without first obtainning a bachelor's degree first. Again January 1st is not the exact date, but the year was in 1962.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Goodall marries a wildlife photographer Baron Hugo Van Lawick in London at the Chelsea Old Church. Together, they had a son, Hugo Eric Louis. Unfortunately, they divorced in 1974. That following year she then married Derek Brysecon, but he died of cancer in 1980.

  • Thesis

    Thesis
    Jane Goodall completed her thesis at Cambridge in the year of 1965 with the help of Robert HInda. In her thesis she gives great detail of her first five years at the Gombe Reserve.

  • Awards

    Awards
    From 1991 to 1999 Goodall has received many awards. The specific date is not January 1st, but the year is again correct.
    -1991= she recieved the Edinburg Medal
    -1995= the Hubbard Medal
    -1999= The Community of Christ International peace award
    -1996= the William Procter Prize for Special Achievement
    -2003= The Benjamin Franklin Medal
    -2004= Nerenberg Prize
    -2010= Bambi Our Earth