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Geoffrey West (b. 1943) is a physicist. He was born "in 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 in California at Stanford. 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][3]
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- ^ Geoffrey West. Physics Central. Retrieved on May 2, 2006.
- ^ Time Magazine's article about West
- ^ Heil, Diana. "‘Time’ gives nod to ‘master of complexity", Free New Mexican, 2006-05-02. Retrieved on May 4, 2006.
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American theoretical physicist. |
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1943 |
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