Jane's work has taught hundreds of thousands of people about chimpanzees. It is as if she opened a window onto the chimpanzee world. People all over the world know and love the chimpanzees of Gombe. When one of the chimpanzees, old Flo, died in 1972, the London Times even printed an obituary.
Women primatologists owe a debt to Dr. Goodall. "Jane Goodall's trail-blazing path for other women primatologists is arguably her greatest legacy... Indeed, women now dominate long-term primate behavioural studies worldwide", writes Gilbert Grosvenor, chairman of the National Geographic Society.