Environmentalists, politicians, celebrities recall life and influence of primatologist Jane Goodall

Tributes are pouring in from around the world honoring the life and influence of famed primatologist Jane Goodall ...

Jane Goodall’s Legacy of Challenging What It Means to Be a Scientist

Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. Goodall is ...
Scientific American

3 Ways Jane Goodall Challenged What It Means to Be a Scientist

Beyond primatology, Goodall’s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says ...
Nature

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

Beyond primatology, Goodall’s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says ...

Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...
University of California

A Nobel legacy: 5 decades of astounding prize-winning discoveries

UCSF researchers are advancing care through scientific breakthroughs that pave the way for less addictive pain medications ...

Jane Goodall championed animal conservation for six decades

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six de ...

Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment

She co-created the French Atomic Energy Commission in 1945 and held a six-year term, promoting nuclear research and development of the first French nuclear reactor. She later became director of the ...