Goodall, Jane Syllabification: (Good·all, Jane)Pronunciation: /ˈgo͝odôl/Definition of Goodall, Jane (1934-), English zoologist. After working with Louis Leakey in Tanzania from 1957, she made prolonged and intimate studies of chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve at Lake Tanganyika from 1970. Goodall, Jane in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Goodall, Jane in the British & World English dictionary