Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations.

He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense with Alan Sokal. Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes.

In 2005 he published Impérialisme humanitaire. Droits de l’homme, droit d’ingérence, droit du plus fort ? ^*- Aden.

In 2006, he wrote the préface of L'Atlas alternatif - Frédéric Delorca (ed), Pantin, Temps des Cerises ^*.

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