In this 2006 filepic, primatologist Jane Goodall is seen near a chimpanzee enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Goodall was named on May 20 as this year’s winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, honouring individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality. Photo: AP
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her expertise on chimpanzees and her globe-spanning advocacy of environmental causes, was named on May 20 as this year’s winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, honouring individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality.
Goodall, born in London in 1934, travelled to Kenya in 1957 and met the famed anthropologist and paleontologist Louis Leakey. In 1960, at his invitation, she began her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania.
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