Europe 1 with AFP 5:46 p.m., June 22, 2022, modified at 5:47 p.m., June 22, 2022
French paleontologist Yves Coppens, discoverer of several hominid fossils including the famous Australopithecus Lucy, died Wednesday at the age of 87.
"Yves Coppens left us this morning. My sadness is immense," tweeted Odile Jacob, his editor.
French paleontologist Yves Coppens, discoverer of several hominid fossils including the famous Australopithecus Lucy, died Wednesday at the age of 87, announced his editor Odile Jacob.
"Yves Coppens left us this morning. My sadness is immense," tweeted Odile Jacob, hailing "a very great scholar".
"I lose the friend who entrusted me with all his work. France loses one of its great men," added the editor.
The scientist died following a long illness, the publishing house told AFP.
#Yves Coppens left us this morning.
My sadness is immense.
Yves Coppens was a very great scientist, a world-renowned paleontologist, a member of countless foreign institutions, but above all a professor at the Collège de France and a member of the Academy of Sciences.
— Odile Jacob (@EditriceOJacob) June 22, 2022
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