Yves Coppens

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French paleoanthropologist (1934-2022)

France AcademicsLived 1934 to 2022 · aged 87

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Awards 20

2016Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit

2015Prix de Rome

2013Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour

2013Associated Member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies

2011French Excellence Award

2010Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎

1998Honorary doctor of the University of Mons

1993honorary doctor of the University of Chicago

1992Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Young-Adult Novel

1992Honorary doctor of the University of Liège

1988Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna

1987Ernest Van den Broeck medal

1984Kalinga Prize

1984Henry Malherbe Prize

1982CNRS silver medal

1974Prize Jaffé

Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms

Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit

Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit

Officer of the National Order of Chad

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SpouseFrançoise Le Guennec-Coppens

FatherRené Coppens

Connected to Yves 6

Jacques LanzmannAlso in The Monkey Folk (1989)

Lotfi DziriAlso in Birth of Civilization (2007)

Pierre PelotAlso in Homo sapiens (2005)

Fatma Ben SaïdaneAlso in Birth of Civilization (2007)

Albert UderzoAlso won French Excellence Award

Leif SegerstamAlso won Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit

About this person

Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.

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France