Geoffrey West
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| Born | 1940 U.K. |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics Theoretical Biology |
| Institutions | Santa Fe Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory University of New Mexico |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University Stanford University |
| Known for | Metabolic theory of ecology |
| Notable awards | Mercer Award |
Geoffrey Brian West (1940) is a British theoretical physicist, former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute.
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[edit] Life and Work
Geoffrey West was born in 1940 in Taunton, Somerset, a rural town in western England and moved to London when he was 13.[1] He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Cambridge and pursued graduate studies at Stanford, California.
He eventually became a Stanford faculty member before he joined the particle theory group at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. After Los Alamos, he became president of the Santa Fe Institute, where he works on biological issues (such as power laws in biology such as the allometric law).
He has since been honored as one of Time magazine's Time 100.[2] He is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Geoffrey West". Physics Central. http://www.physicscentral.com/people/people-03-05.html. Retrieved 2006-05-02.
- ^ Time Magazine's article about West
- ^ World Knowledge Dialogue
[edit] External links
- Geoffrey West's Profile at the Santa Fe Institute
- "Yeah, but what about the crayfish?" - Article about West's scaling law work on PhysicsWorld.com
- Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems - Talk he gave at Google
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