Jean Bricmont

{{Short description|Belgian physicist and essayist (born 1952)}}

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| field = Physics, Philosophy of Science

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Rutgers University
Princeton University

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Jean Bricmont ({{IPA|fr|bʁikmɔ̃|lang}}; 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, Bricmont is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.[http://academieroyale.be/n377/Jean.Bricmont Jean Bricmont] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012053858/http://www.academieroyale.be/n377/Jean.Bricmont |date=12 October 2017 }} page on Royal Academy of Belgium website.

Bricmont claims he is a rationalist.{{Cite web |date=2002-03-12 |title=Entretien avec Jean Bricmont: la gauche face à la science |url=https://solidarites.ch/journal/5-2/entretien-avec-jean-bricmont-la-gauche-face-a-la-science/ |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=solidaritéS |language=fr-FR}} 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.{{Cite web|last=Bricmont|first=Jean|date=2001-04-01|title=La mauvaise réputation de Noam Chomsky|url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/04/BRICMONT/1829|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Le Monde diplomatique|language=fr}}{{primary source inline|date=April 2024}}

Jean Bricmont was president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique from 2001 to 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pseudo-sciences.org/Qui-sommes-nous|title = Qui sommes-nous ? / Afis Science - Association française pour l'information scientifique}}