Jane Goodall

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1. A first

   In 1962, Louis Leakey sent Goodall to the University of Cambridge even though she had no degree. She became the eighth person permitted to pursue a PhD there without first earning a bachelor's degree.

2. A first

   After Leakey raised the funds, Goodall traveled to Gombe Stream National Park on 14 July 1960. She became the first of the group later known as the Trimates.

3. Early training

   In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London. There, Osman Hill taught her about primate behavior, while John Napier instructed her in primate anatomy.

4. Getting ready for a role

   Goodall set herself apart by naming the chimpanzees she studied instead of giving them numbers, a break from the near-universal practice of the time.

5. 

   Behind the camera

   Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to support the Gombe research and to protect chimpanzees and their habitats, and it grew to nineteen offices worldwide.

6. Behind the camera

   Goodall's global youth program, Roots & Shoots, started in 1991, when 12 local teenagers met her on the back porch of her home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. As of 2010, it had more than 10,000 groups across over 100 countries.