Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey‘s source of wealth comes from being a archeologist. How much money is Louis Leakey worth at the age of 121 and what’s his real net worth now?

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Louis Leakey (born August 7, 1903) is famous for being archeologist. He currently resides in Kenya. British archaeologist whose work in the Olduvai Gorge in Africa was important in establishing human evolutionary development. Despite being a devout Christian his science was nonetheless predicated on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

Louis Leakey is a Leo and was born in The Year of the Rabbit

Life

Louis Leakey was born in Kenya on Friday, August 7, 1903 (G.I. Generation generation). He is 121 years old and is a Leo. Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972), also known as L. S. B. Leakey, was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleontologist Mary Leakey. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there. Having been a prime mover in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry, he was able to motivate the next generation to continue it, notably within his own family, many of whom also became prominent. Leakey participated in national events of British East Africa and Kenya during the 1950s. When Britain when to war in 1939 he was drafted by the Kenyan government to work in the African Intelligence Service, where he took on regular police investigations.

He was raised in the former British East Africa (which is now Kenya) by two Christian missionaries and his earliest home had a dirt floor, rodents, and a leaky roof. Louis Leakey is a member of Richest Celebrities and Archeologists.