# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-taieb
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:17:08.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-taieb"
name: "Maurice Taieb"
slug: "maurice-taieb"
description: "Maurice Taieb was a Tunisian French geologist and paleoanthropologist. He discovered the Hadar formation, recognized its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE). This enabled co-director Donald Johanson to discover an early hominin fossil, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecine Lucy in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression."
tagline: "French geologist and anthropologist (1935-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice_Taieb_Mai2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-07-22"
deathDate: "2021-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.9
  momentum:             4.333333333333332
  historical:           7.883586666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Тайеб, Морис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريس طيب"
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    title: "موريس طيب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Taieb"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Taieb"
    title: "Maurice Taieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Taieb"
    title: "Maurice Taieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Taieb"
    title: "Maurice Taieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Taieb"
    title: "Maurice Taieb"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Taieb"
    title: "Maurice Taieb"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump