Yves Coppens: advisors and students

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Yves Coppens

French paleoanthropologist1934 to 2022

Wikidata lists 5 doctoral students and names Pierre-Roland Giot as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Jean-Jacques Hublin
born 1953
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Brigitte Senut
born 1954
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Zeresenay Alemseged
born 1969
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Vincent Mourre
born 1972
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Emmanuelle Pouydebat
born 1973

Teachers and mentors1

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Pierre-Roland Giot

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Education and career6

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1956 to 1969
National Center for Scientific Research
worked
from 1980
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
worked
from 1980
École pratique des hautes études
worked
until 2005
Collège de France
worked
undated
University of Rennes
studied
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Musée de l'Homme
worked

At a glance

known as: anthropologist, paleontologist, professor, paleoanthropologist, university teacher
fields: paleoanthropology
awards: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, 2013, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, 2010, Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms, Kalinga Prize, 1984, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Young-Adult Novel, 1992, Honorary doctor of the University of Liège, 1992, Honorary doctor of the University of Mons, 1998, CNRS silver medal, 1982, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, 2016, honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, 1993, Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna, 1988, Associated Member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies, 2013, Prix de Rome, 2015, Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit, Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit, Officer of the National Order of Chad, Prize Jaffé, 1974, French Excellence Award, 2011, Ernest Van den Broeck medal, 1987, Henry Malherbe Prize, 1984
member of: French Academy of Sciences, from 1985, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, from 1992, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, Académie Nationale de Médecine, from 1991, Academia Europaea, from 1988, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of South Africa, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Académie des sciences, des arts, des cultures d'Afrique et des diasporas africaines, Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Society of Anthropology of Paris
notable works: Manoir de Kerazan
Wikipedia: in 21 languages

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