Jean Bricmont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Belgian physicist and essayist
Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1952
Place of Birth: Uccle, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Profession: physicist, essayist
Nationality: Belgium
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Jean Bricmont
- Jean Bricmont (French: [b?ikm?~]; 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.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 along with Noam Chomsky.
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