Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the

235th episode of Awards Chapp, the Hollywood Reporters Awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and this very special episode

is presented by the Prime Original Series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel,

now nominated for 14 Emmy Awards, including outstanding comedy

series and outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for Rachel Brasnahan's performance as

mid-MAisel. Consider it marvelous in all categories. My guest today has been called

the most recognizable scientist in the world and one professor has said of her quote what

Albert Einstein is to physics she is to the behavioral sciences close. quote,

what Albert Einstein is to physics, she is to the behavioral sciences, close quote.

For 58 years now, she has been traveling to Gombi,

a jungle in the Western Kogoma region of Tanzania,

to study chimpanzees.

Her research there has resulted in numerous landmark discoveries, most notably that chimps, like

humans, construct and use tools, and also are not not as have been widely believed vegetarians.

As Louis Leakey, the world-renowned paleo anthropologist and archaeologists who first center

out into the wild, teleglegrammed in response to these revelations,

quote, now we must redefine man, redefine tools, or accept chimpanzees as humans, close quote. In recent years as she has devoted more of her time to

traveling the world to educate people and inspire them to protect chimpanzees

and save the planet, her fame has only grown.

She was made a commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995

and a Dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

...