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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, Bricmont is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.

Bricmont describes himself as a rationalist. 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.

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

Books

Impérialisme humanitaire (2005) published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism, 2006 LCCN 2006-34221 ISBN 1-58367-147-1

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.