Jean Bricmont
Jean Bricmont (2010)
Born	(1952-04-12) 12 April 1952 (age 71) 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 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]

Books

• Impérialisme humanitaire (2005) published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism,^[5] 2006 LCCN 2006-34221 ISBN 1-58367-147-1^[6]
• Preface to L'Atlas alternatif – Frédéric Delorca (ed), Pantin, Temps des Cerises, 2006
• Raison contre pouvoir. Le pari de Pascal Jean Bricmont and Noam Chomsky, 5 November 2009
• La République des censeurs, L'Herne. 2014. ISBN 978-2851974570.
• Bricmont, Jean (2016). Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics. Springer. ISBN 978-3319258898. LCCN 2019757770.
• Bricmont, Jean (2017). Quantum Sense and Nonsense. Springer. ISBN 978-3319652719. LCCN 2019744992.