Geoffrey West
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| Born | Goeffrey Brian West 1940 (age 76–77) Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Theoretical physics Theoretical biology |
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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 |
| Notable awards | Mercer Award |
| Spouse | Jacqueline West |
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Geoffrey Brian West (born c. 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%.
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.
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