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Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a physicist at New York University.

He is best known to the general public for the Sokal Affair of 1996, on which he followed up by co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Jean Bricmont ( 1999).

His research interests include statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, mathematical physics, and computational physics.

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