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
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(CNRS).
Education and career
Laloë was born in
Rabat,
Morocco
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and studied physics at the
École Polytechnique
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine
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in Paris from 1960 to 1962. His studied at
University of Paris VI
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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
Doctorat d'État
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in 1970. He worked for the
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...
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, i