Jessica Kutz

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Jane Goodall, one of the most renowned woman scientists in the world, died at age 91 in Los Angeles, her namesake institute announced in a statement on Wednesday.

Goodall became famous for her work studying the behaviors of chimpanzees, capturing the attention of institutions like the National Geographic Society, which funded her research and featured an iconic cover image of Goodall observing a group of chimpanzees in the jungle. She would go on to earn a PhD despite never having received a bachelor’s degree.

It was a childhood dream fulfilled. As she told Time in 2018 : “When I was a little girl, I used to dream as a man, because I wanted to do things that women didn’t

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