Dr Jane Goodall in one of her many public lectures
Dr. Jane Goodall will on July 21, 2010 make a public lecture on Environment & Humanitarian issues at State University Zanzibar, Vuga compass the main lecture room at 11.00am. Thus, all public and reporters are welcomed to participate and share interested information.
Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall, DBE (born 3 April 1934), is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. She is well-known forand family interactions in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute.
She obtained a Ph.D degree in Ethology in 1965 from Cambridge University. She is one of only nine people to receive a Ph.D without first obtaining a BA or B.Sc. Her Thesis Advisor was Robert Hinde.Goodall was set on the path of chimpanzee study by Louis Leakey.
She became the first of "Leakey's Angels" when she began her first field study of chimpanzee culture in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Goodall had always been passionate about animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the Kenya highlands in 1957.
From there, she obtained work as a secretary, but acting on her friend's advice she telephoned Louis Leakey with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals.
The call was far-reaching in its impact. Leakey, believing that the study of existing great apes could provide indications of the behaviour of early hominids, was looking for a chimpanzee researcher but he kept the idea to himself for a time. Instead, he proposed that Goodall work for him as a secretary. Louis sent Goodall to Olduvai Gorge, where he confessed his plans.
In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London to study primate behavior with Osman Hill and primate anatomy with John Napier. In 1959, Leakey became romantic about Goodall, but she refused him firmly. Neither bore any ill will. The funds were found in that year, and in 1960 Goodall went to Gombe with her mother Vanne Morris-Goodall.
Goodall has received many honors for her environmental and humanitarian work, as well as others. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in a ceremony held in Buckingham Palace in 2004. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Dr. Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Other honors include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the French Legion of Honor, 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 is also a member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. In 2002, the Canadian city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario dedicated a walking trail, highlighting some of the city's efforts to rehabilitate environmental damage from the local mining industry, to Goodall.
On 7 July 2007 Goodall presented at Live Earth. In April 2008, Goodall was awarded the Montana State University Medal for Global and Visionary Leadership
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ReplyDeleteI KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE WITH PhDs AS WELL AS PROFESSORS WITHOUT FIRST DEGREE, IT IS NOT TRUE THAT THEY 9 ONLY ALL OVER THE WORLD!
ReplyDeletewazee. leakey kapata chake akampa siri fulani ya kujiendeleza... Si ni kama siku hizi tu wakati dada zetu wengi wakitafuta kazi?... Kwa nini hilo tangazo linangangania Leakey hakupata chake?
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