There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes etched into textbooks and museum walls. Yet countless brilliant minds remain ...

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Jane Goodall, who has died aged 91, changed the world through the way she saw animals, particularly chimps. In 1960, when she was 26, she observed a chimp she had named David Greybeard fishing for ...