On Wednesday, October 1, the Jane Goodall Institute announced that Goodall—the British-born primatologist, anthropologist, zoologist, and author—had died while traveling in Calfornia for work. She was 91.

Twenty years ago, Alexandra Fuller met with Goodall in Seattle to discuss her childhood in England, her groundbreaking research in Tanzania as a young woman, and her rigorous touring and speaking schedule in her 70s—work that Goodall described as what she “was sent to do.” Revisit that story, from Vogue’ s August 2005 issue, right here.

In the flesh, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dame of the British Empire, looks exactly as you would expect, only more so—a rare experience with people whose images are doggedly repeated in photographs or on screens. Hers is not a face aching to appear decades you

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