Hetty van de Rijt

The late Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij received her PhD at Cambridge University as a physical anthropologist. With her husband, Dr Plooij, she studied infant development in free-living chimpanzees with Dr. Jane Goodall in the Gombe National Park. As a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, she studied the development of human babies in their home environment through direct observations, filming, and in-depth interviews with their parents.