{"name": "Yves Coppens", "key": "/authors/OL60264A", "photos": [15137425], "birth_date": "1934-08-09", "personal_name": "Yves Coppens", "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q1382212", "viaf": "31994842", "isni": "0000000121265858", "lc_naf": "n83164536", "gnd": "123589061"}, "death_date": "2022-06-22", "bio": "Yves Coppens, n\u00e9 le 9 ao\u00fbt 1934 \u00e0 Vannes (Morbihan) et mort le 22 juin 2022 dans le 11e arrondissement de Paris, est un pal\u00e9ontologue et pal\u00e9oanthropologue fran\u00e7ais, professeur \u00e9m\u00e9rite au Mus\u00e9um national d'histoire naturelle et au Coll\u00e8ge de France. Son nom est attach\u00e9 en France \u00e0 la d\u00e9couverte, en 1974 en \u00c9thiopie, du fossile d'Australopith\u00e8que surnomm\u00e9 Lucy, en tant que codirecteur de l'\u00e9quipe qui l'a mis au jour, avec l'Am\u00e9ricain Donald Johanson et le Fran\u00e7ais Maurice Taieb.\r\n\r\n\r\n----------\r\n\r\n\r\nYves Coppens, born on August 9, 1934 in Vannes (Morbihan) and died on June 22, 2022 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, was a French paleontologist and paleoanthropologist, professor emeritus at the National Museum of Natural History and the Coll\u00e8ge de France. In France, his name is associated with the discovery, in 1974 in Ethiopia, of the Australopithecus fossil nicknamed Lucy, as co-director of the team that unearthed it, with the American Donald Johanson and the Frenchman Maurice Taieb.", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Yves Jean \u00c9douard Coppens"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T16:32:06.742290"}}