Franck Laloë (born May 28, 1940)[1] is a French quantum physicist, author, and open archive initiator.
Laloë was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied physics at the École Polytechnique in Paris from 1960 to 1962.
His PhD from 1963 to 1968 (Doctorat de troisième cycle) involved research on spin-polarized helium-3 systems.
[4] Laloë is the initiator of the open archive for scientific works, HAL, created in 2001 at the Centre pour la communication scientifique directe (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).