Jean Bricmont

Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont (2010)
Born	(1952-04-12) 12 April 1952 (age 72) Uccle,[1] Belgium
Citizenship	Belgium
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Philosophy of Science
Institutions	UCLouvain 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 a rationalist activist. He has 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][non-primary source needed]}

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