Bogdanoff brothers

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Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff (2016)

The twin brothers Igor (born August 29, 1949 in Saint-Lary , Gers department ; † January 3, 2022 in Paris ) and Grichka Bogdanoff (born August 29, 1949 in Saint-Lary, Gers department; † December 28, 2021 in Paris) , also written Bogdanov , were French authors and television presenters .

Life

Igor and Grichka Bogdanov studied Applied Mathematics in Paris and moderated from 1979 sci-fi shows and popular science programs on French television, including Temps X and rayons X radio station France 2 .

Among the seven books they have published is one based on interviews with the philosopher Jean Guitton ( Dieu et la Science , 1991). The siblings also stood out for their unusual appearance, but always denied surgical interventions on their faces.

The brothers became infected with SARS-CoV-2 and were admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital on December 15, 2021. Grichka died on December 28, 2021 at the age of 72 as a result of COVID-19 , Igor six days later. Both were not vaccinated. According to their lawyer, they were not opposed to vaccinations , but had hoped that "their healthy lifestyle would protect them from infection".

Igor Bogdanoff had six children, a son from his relationship with actress Geneviève Grad , three from his first marriage to Countess Ludmilla d'Oultremont and two from his second marriage to the writer Amélie de Bourbon-Parme.

promotion

The two brothers began their doctorate in 1993 at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon under the doctoral supervisor Moshé Flato , an expert in mathematical physics with an international reputation.

After Flato's accidental death, they completed their dissertations under the guidance of his long-time colleague Daniel Sternheimer . Grichka received his doctorate in mathematics in 1999 with a thesis on cosmology and Igor in theoretical physics in 2002 .

Both works were given the worst rating “honorable”.

Bogdanoff affair

In 2002 Usenet already suspected that the publications examined in the peer-review process in the course of this doctorate were a joke, which the Bogdanoffs denied. Hermann Nicolai , the director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Research in Potsdam, summarized a publication by the two of them from 2001 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as follows: “The article is a potpourri of buzzwords from modern physics that completely is incoherent . ”The journal's editorial board issued a statement in November 2001 regretting the appearance of the article and stating that it should not have been published.

In 2010 an alleged CNRS report from 2003 was published in which the Bogdanoffs' work was denied any scientific value.

The Université de Bourgogne responded with a press release, according to which the Bogdanoffs had been awarded their degrees according to the regular procedure and the scientific value of their work had been evaluated and assessed by a scientific committee whose sovereign decision could not be questioned. The publications of the two were set in relation to the work of Alan Sokal (" Sokal Affair "). However, according to his own admission, Sokal allowed himself a joke and wanted to point out deficiencies in the peer review with his treatise, which consists of the arbitrary stringing together of terms from philosophy and quantum physics; while the Bogdanoff brothers, by their own account, did not see their published texts as a joke, but rather as serious treatises.

Web links

Commons : Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michaela Wiegel: Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff died of Covid-19 a few days in a row. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 4, 2022.
  2. ↑ Igor Bogdanov est mort, six jours après son frère jumeau Grichka , Le Monde , January 3, 2022 accessed the same day.
  3. ↑ Grichka Bogdanoff, l'un des jumeaux stars des années 1980, est mort du Covid-19 , Le Monde, December 28, 2021, accessed December 30, 2021.
  4. ↑ Mort d'Igor Bogdanoff, six jours après son frère Grichka. In: bfmtv.com. Retrieved January 4, 2022 (French).
  5. ^ Nicolas Deschamps: Igor Bogdanov, six fois papa . In: gala.fr of February 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ Igor convolé à Chambord . In: ladepeche.fr of September 30, 2009.
  7. ↑ a b Dennis Overbye: Are They a) Geniuses or b) Jokers? In: New York Times . November 9, 2002 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 24, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Grichka Bogdanoff in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) Dissertation Fluctuations quantiques de la signature de la metrique a l'echelle de Planck. Université de Bourgogne 1999. Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  9. ↑ Igor Bogdanoff in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) Dissertation: État topologique de l'espace-temps à l'échelle zéro. Université de Bourgogne 2002. Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  10. ^ A b John Baez : The Bogdanoff Affair. October 22, 2010, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ulrich Schnabel: The fairy tales of the Bogdanov brothers . In: The time . November 27, 2002 ( zeit.de [accessed April 24, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Quotation: valeur de ce travail est nulle , see Jonathan Parienté: Les jumeaux Bogdanov étrillés par le CNRS. In: En quête de sciences. blog.lemonde.fr, October 16, 2010, accessed on April 24, 2019 (French).
  13. ^ "... les travaux de thèses de Doctorat de M. Grichka Bogdanov (1999) et de M. Igor Bogdanov (2002) ont été soumis à un processus d'évaluation conforme à la procédure en vigueur dans les universités françaises. Le contenu scientifique des deux thèses a été évalué et validé par un jury de scientifiques dont la décision souveraine ne peut être remise en cause. ”Quoted from: Communiqué de l'Université de Bourgogne au sujet des titres de Docteur de MM. Igor et Grichka BOGDANOV. Université de Bourgogne , October 29, 2010, archived from the original on April 28, 2011 (French).;
  14. ↑ Andrew Orlowski: Physics hoaxers discover Quantum Bogosity. In: The Register . November 1, 2002, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Andrew Orlowski: Bogdanov brothers deny bogosity. In: The Register . November 5, 2002, accessed April 24, 2019 .