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

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(CNRS).

Education and career

Laloë was born in Rabat,

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and studied physics at the

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in Paris from 1960 to 1962. His studied at

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(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

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in 1970. He worked for the CNRS and became director from 1978. Later Laloë worked at the

Kastler–Brossel Laboratory The Kastler–Brossel Laboratory, (formerly the Laboratory of Hertzian Spectroscopy) located in Paris, France, is a research laboratory specializing in fundamental physics of quantum systems. Founded in 1951 by Alfred Kastler and Jean Brossel, ...

in Paris, where he was the director from 2004 to 2014. Laloë is the initiator of the

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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 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) devoted to the development of the open access repositories HAL, TEL and MediHal, and the web platfor ...

(CCSD) of the CNRS. 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, 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 a popular series of quantum mechanics textbook with Bernard Diu and

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first published in French by

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in 1973. Its first English translation was published by

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in 1977. The book series is now in its second edition in 2020.

Honors and awards

Laloë received the Prix de l'État from the French Academy of Sciences in 1988, the Prix Aimé Cotton in 1970 from the

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, and in 2000 the Prix des trois physiciens from the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

in Paris and the Eugène Bloch Foundation.

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