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Jane Goodall

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  • Born

    London, England

  • High School Certificate

  • Higher Certificate

  • Discovers that Chimpanzees eat meat

  • Discovers that Chimpanzees make and use tools

  • Established Camp in the Gombe Stream Reserve

  • National Geographic - First cover story

  • Married to Baron Hugo van Lawick

  • Received Ph.D in Ethology

  • The film Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

  • Son Hugo, Jr. Born

  • Visiting Professorship in Psychiatry

  • First Major Text In the Shadow of Man

  • Honorary Professor of Zoology

    University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania

  • Divorced van Lawick

  • Gold Medal of Conservation

    From San Diego Zoological Society

  • Married Derek Bryceson

  • Observed Cannibalism in the Gombe Chimpanzees

  • Founded the Jane Goodall Institute

  • Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize

  • Becomes an Activist

    Starts educating the public about the unethical treatment of chimpanzees

  • Schweitzer Medal of the Animal Welfare Institute

  • National Geographic Society Centennial Award

  • Book The Chimpanzee Family Book

    Received Unicef Childrens Book of the Year Award

  • Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences

  • Book Through a Window

  • Roots and Shoots is Founded

  • Tchimpounga Sanctuary Founded

  • Starts Community-Conservation work in Western Tanzania

  • Institute begins to leverage science in conservation work

  • Messenger of Peace by the United Nations

  • Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II

  • Named UN Messenger of Peace

  • Institute Establishes First Formal Conservation action plan

  • Book Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the Plants with Gail Hudson

  • Continues to work with the Institute