After high school in Cannes, Lévy-Leblond studied mathematics at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (Paris), then entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1958.

He is professor emeritus at the University of Nice and was programme director at the Collège international de philosophie from 2001 to 2007.

He has published numerous articles on his research work, which mainly concerns theoretical and mathematical physics and epistemology.

For a long time, Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond has been sounding the alarm on the need for a public science intelligence, where knowledge, research, culture and politics would be tied together […].

In order to preserve authentic scientific discourse and avoid a gap of misunderstanding between specialists and the general public, but also to cultivate the need for a history of science, against the illusion of a universality of scientific knowledge, against the presentism and the fantasies of absolute contemporaneity, against the submission of science to industrial imperatives, against the planetary standardization that the domination of technosciences installs.