Top 7 Famous Women Scientists in History - Page 6 of 9

Jane Goodall

This anthropologist is the world’s leading authority on chimps. Even before she graduated, she worked as a chimpanzee researcher for renowned scientist Louis Leaky. She spent the most of her life chronicling the lives of chimps in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. Her thorough research offered new insight on the life of chimps, revealing that they are omnivorous and can construct and utilise tools, among other things.