Profiles

She arrived at Gombe in 1960 with a notebook and binoculars. Over 65 years she changed what science knew about chimpanzees, and what the public believed it could do for them.

The neurologist turned his patients’ strangest experiences into some of the most humane science writing of the century. A decade after his death, his books still teach readers how to pay attention.

She redesigned how much of America’s livestock is handled, then became one of the best-known voices for autistic people. Her argument is that different thinking is a resource.