Kenyan archaeologist; discovered
fossil remains of Proconsul on
Rusinga Island (1948), Zinjanthropus (1959), the
habiline specimen known as George, and in the 1970s and 80s, the
Laetoli footprints and other
hominids; described the complete sequence of
tools at Olduvai Gorge. Author of Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3 (1971) and Olduvai Gorge:
My Search for Early
Man (1979). Awarded the Hubbard Medal in 1962, the Gold Medal from the
American Society of Women Geographers in 1975, and the Golden Linnaean Medal in 1978.