List of Famous people with last name Sokal

Benoît Sokal

Benoît André Sokal

First Name Benoît

Last Name Sokal

Born on June 28, 1954

Died on May 28, 2021 (aged 66)

Born in Belgium, Brussels-Capital Region

Benoît Sokal is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series Inspector Canardo, and the adventure game series Syberia.

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Alan Sokal

First Name Alan

Last Name Sokal

Born on January 24, 1955 (age 71)

Born in United States of America, Massachusetts

Alan David Sokal is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text. He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.

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