Franck Laloë
Franck Laloë is a French quantum physicist, author, and open archive initiator. He is emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Education and career
Laloë was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied physics at the École Polytechnique in Paris from 1960 to 1962. His studied at University of Paris VI for a two-part doctorate. His PhD from 1963 to 1968 involved research on spin-polarized helium-3 systems. He obtained Doctorat d'État in 1970. He worked for the CNRS and became director from 1978. Later Laloë worked at the Kastler–Brossel Laboratory in Paris, where he was the director from 2004 to 2014.Laloë is the initiator of the open archive for scientific works, HAL, created in 2001 at the Centre pour la communication scientifique directe of the CNRS. He deals with digital archiving on optical media and is president of a corresponding research group.
Laloë's research deals with optical pumping, acoustics, superfluid helium-3, foundations of quantum mechanics and ultracold quantum gases, as well as optical information storage technology. Laloë is co-author of Quantum Mechanics, a popular series of quantum mechanics textbook with and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.