Franck Laloë (born May 28, 1940) is a French quantum physicist, author, and open archive initiator. He is emeritus research director at the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

(CNRS).

Education and career

Laloë was born in

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and studied physics at the

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in Paris from 1960 to 1962. His studied at

University of Paris VI Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

(later ''Pierre and Marie Curie University'') for a two-part doctorate. His PhD from 1963 to 1968 (Doctorat de troisième cycle) involved research on spin-polarized helium-3 systems. He obtained

Doctorat d'État Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellen ...

in 1970. He worked for the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

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 An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such reposito ...

for scientific works, HAL, created in 2001 at the

Centre pour la communication scientifique directe The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) is a French organization of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) devoted to the development of the open access reposit ...

(CCSD) of the

. He deals with digital archiving on optical media (CD and DVD) and is president of a corresponding research group (GIS-DON). Laloë's research deals with

optical pumping Optical pumping is a process in which light is used to raise (or "pump") electrons from a lower energy level in an atom or molecule to a higher one. It is commonly used in laser construction to pump the active laser medium so as to achieve popu ...

, acoustics (including chaos), superfluid helium-3, foundations of quantum mechanics and ultracold quantum gases ( Bose-Einstein condensates), as well as optical information storage technology. Laloë is co-author of ''

Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical Scientific theory, theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; its unusual characteristics typically occur at and below the scale of atoms. Reprinted, Addison-Wesley, 1989, It is ...

'' (), a popular series of quantum mechanics textbook with and

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and magnetic trap (atoms), trapping atoms. Currentl ...

Honors and awards

Laloë received the Prix de l'État from the

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in 1988, the Prix

Aimé Cotton Aimé Auguste Cotton (9 October 1869 – 16 April 1951) was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules. In the absorption bands of these molecules, he discovered large values of optical rotato ...

in 1970 from the Société Française de Physique, and in 2000 the Prix des trois physiciens from the

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in Paris and the Eugène Bloch Foundation.

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