Famed anthropologist, primatologist, and zoologist Jane Goodall has passed away.

Dr. Goodall was born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on April 3rd, 1934 in London, England. She was given a stuffed chimpanzee as a child which developed her interest in animals.

She would receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree in ethology from Darwin College, Cambridge in 1966.

Starting in 1960, she started studying chimpanzees with the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She would go on to name a number of chimpanzees in the community.

Dr. Goodall would create two foundations during her lifetime: the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots organization.

Dr. Goodall received a number of awards during her life, including being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours (later she was upgraded to Dame Commander of the same Order (DBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours), the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Legion of Honour, Medal of Tanzania, Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish Prince of Asturias Awards.

She was married twice: first to Baron Hugo van Lawick and then to Derek Bryceson.