Jane Goodall

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Also Known As	Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall • Dame Jane Goodall
Born	April 3, 1934 (age 90) • London • England
Awards And Honors	Templeton Prize (2021)
Notable Works	“In the Shadow of Man”
Subjects Of Study	chimpanzee

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Jane Goodall has prosopagnosia, or face blindness.

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Dutch zoologist

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Austrian zoologist

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British naturalist

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Richard Dawkins

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Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

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C. Lloyd Morgan

British zoologist and psychologist

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David Lambert Lack

British author and ornithologist

Reginald Innes Pocock

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Martin Rees

British cosmologist and astrophysicist

Arthur Peacocke

British biochemist and theologian

Sir Sigmund Sternberg

British philanthropist and entrepreneur

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British rabbi and author

John Polkinghorne

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