Jane Goodall:
Was born 3 April 1934 as Valerie Jane Morris Goodall. She is well-known for her 45-year study of chimpanzee social and family interactions. She suffered from prosopagnosia, a neurological condition which impairs the recognition of human faces.
One of Goodall's major break-throughs in the field of primatology was the discovery of tool-making among chimpanzees during her study. Though many animals had been clearly observed using 'tools', previously, only humans were thought to make tools, and tool-making was considered the defining difference between humans and other animals. This discovery convinced several scientists to reconsider their definition of being human.
Jane Goodall is an animal rights activist and is president of Advocates for Animals, an animal rights organization based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Florence Nigthingale:
Was born 12 May 1820 and died 13 August 1910. She came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing, a writer and a noted statistician.
In December 1844, in response to a pauper's death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal, she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries.
During the Crimean campaign Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times:
She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.
Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing, which was published in 1860, a slim 136 page book that served as the cornerstone of the curriculum at the Nightingale School and other nursing schools established. Notes on Nursing also sold well to the general reading public and is considered a classic introduction to nursing. Nightingale would spend the rest of her life promoting the establishment and development of the nursing profession and organizing it into its modern form.
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