Biography:Jean Bricmont

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Short description: Belgian physicist and essayist (born 1952)
Jean Bricmont
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Jean Bricmont (2010)
Born (1952-04-12) 12 April 1952 (age 72)
Uccle,[1] Belgium
CitizenshipBelgium
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Philosophy of Science
InstitutionsUCLouvain
Rutgers University
Princeton University

Jean Bricmont (French: [bʁikmɔ̃]; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Since 2004, He is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.[2]

Bricmont is mostly known to the non-academic audience as a rationalist activist who partners with American intellectuals with similar views. He has notably criticized postmodernist views of science along with Alan Sokal, with whom he wrote Fashionable Nonsense (1997). He has also criticized imperialism and defended freedom of expression, adopting a position on the issue similar to that of Noam Chomsky.[3]

Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.[4]

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