Residence United States Books Scale Role Physicist | Name Geoffrey West Notable awards Mercer Award | |
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Institutions Santa Fe Institute
Los Alamos National Laboratory
University of New Mexico Alma mater University of Cambridge
Stanford University Thesis I. Form Factors of the Three-Body Nuclei II. Coulomb Scattering and the Form Factor of the Pion (1966) Known for Metabolic theory of ecology Education Stanford University, University of Cambridge Fields Theoretical physics, Mathematical and theoretical biology | ||
Geoffrey west government needs more scientists fewer economists
Geoffrey Brian West (born December 15, 1940) is a British theoretical physicist, former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. Among other things his work states that with the doubling of a city's size, services per capita will generally increase by 15%.
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- Geoffrey west government needs more scientists fewer economists
- Geoffrey west the surprising math of cities and corporations
- Biography
- Selected publications
- References
Geoffrey west the surprising math of cities and corporations
Biography
Born in Taunton, Somerset, a rural town in western England, West moved to London when he was 13. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from the University of Cambridge and pursued graduate studies on the Pion at Stanford University.
West 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 worked and works on biological issues such as the allometric law and other power laws in biology.
West has since been honored as one of Time magazine's Time 100. He is a member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board.
Selected publications
