Geoffrey West

Geoffrey West

Geoffrey Brian West (1940) is an American theoretical physicist, administrator and president of the Santa Fe Institute.

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." [cite web|url=http://www.physicscentral.com/people/people-03-05.html |title=Geoffrey West |publisher=Physics Central |accessdate=2006-05-02] . 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". [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187290,00.html Time Magazine's article about West] ] [cite news|first=Diana|last=Heil|author=Diana Heil|url=http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/43069.html|title=‘Time’ gives nod to ‘master of complexity|publisher=Free New Mexican|date=2006-05-02|accessdate=2006-05-04] He is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board. [ [http://www.wkdialogue.ch World Knowledge Dialogue] ]

ee also

*Metabolic theory of ecology

References

External links

* [http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/14/7/3 "Yeah, but what about the crayfish?"] -article about West's scaling law work on Physicsweb
* [http://www.santafe.edu/profiles/?pid=64 "Geoffrey West's Homepage at Santa Fe Institute"] - homepage at Santa Fe Institute
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7108406426776765294&q=Geoffrey+West&total=133&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems] -a talk he gave at google about his scaling laws


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