Donald Johanson

About Donald Johanson

Paleoanthropologist born in Chicago who was a member of the team that discovered"Lucy", a hominid australopithecine fossil, in Ethiopia in 1974. He founded the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California, in 1981.

Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering – with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb – the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.

Nationality	American
Born	Donald Carl Johanson, June 28, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Institutions	Arizona State University
Known for	Discovery of a new hominid, Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy")
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Chicago
Fields	Paleoanthropology

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Trivia

He taught at Case Western Reserve University and Arizona State University, and founded the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California.

Donald Johanson before fame

After studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Achievement of Donald Johanson

After teaching at Case Western Reserve University and Arizona State University, he founded the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Donald Johanson family life

He and two other paleoanthropologists, Maurice Taieb and Yves Coppens, discovered"Lucy", the oldest humanoid fossil at the time.

Associations of Donald Johanson

His fossil discovery was named"Lucy" after the famous Beatles song"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (written by John Lennon).

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