Geoffrey West
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Geoffrey Brian West (1940) is an American theoretical physicist, administrator and president of the Santa Fe Institute.
[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 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] He is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ Geoffrey West. Physics Central. Retrieved on 2006-05-02.
- ^ Time Magazine's article about West
- ^ Heil, Diana. "‘Time’ gives nod to ‘master of complexity", Free New Mexican, 2006-05-02. Retrieved on 2006-05-04.
- ^ World Knowledge Dialogue
[edit] External links
- "Yeah, but what about the crayfish?" -article about West's scaling law work on Physicsweb
- Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems-a talk he gave at google about his scaling laws
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