Jane Goodall Timeline

  • Jane Goodall is born in London, England

  • Starts studying chimpanzees

  • Graduates from Uplands

    Graduates from Uplands
  • Sails to Africa

  • Arrives at Gombe Stream Game Reserve

  • Begins first semester at Cambridge University; Baron Hugo Van Lawick arrives at Gombe

  • Goodall receives National Geographic Society's Franklin Burr Award for contrbution to science

  • Marries Van Lawick;receives second Franklin Burr Award

  • Son, Hugo Eric Louis, is born; Goodall publishes her first book, "My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees."

  • Publishes "In the Shadow of Man."

  • The Gombe chimpanzees break into two warring comunities

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