Final answer:
No, Don Johnson is not known as the discoverer of Australopithecus boisei. Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey are credited with the discovery.
Step-by-step explanation:
No, the statement is false. Don Johnson is not known as the discoverer of Australopithecus boisei. The discovery of Australopithecus boisei was credited to Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey in 1959. They found the first hominin fossil of Paranthropus boisei, which was originally classified as Zinjanthropus boisei. The Leakeys conducted their research in the Eastern Rift Valley of East Africa over a period of almost 30 years.