Geoffrey West
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| Born | Goeffrey Brian West 1940 (age 83–84)[citation needed] Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Theoretical physics Theoretical biology |
| 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 |
| Notable awards | Mercer Award[citation needed] |
| 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%.[1]
Biography
Born in Taunton, Somerset, a rural town in western England, West moved to London when he was 13.[2] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from the University of Cambridge and pursued graduate studies on the Pion at Stanford University.[3]
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[4] and other power laws in biology.[5][6]
West has since been honored as one of Time magazine's Time 100.[7] He is a member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board.[8]
Selected publications
- Brown, James H., and Geoffrey B. West, eds. Scaling in biology. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Articles, a selection:[9][10][11]
- West, Geoffrey B., James H. Brown, and Brian J. Enquist. "A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology." Science 276.5309 (1997): 122–126.
- Gillooly, J. F., Brown, J. H., West, G. B., Savage, V. M., & Charnov, E. L. (2001). "Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate." Science, 293(5538), 2248–2251.
- Brown, J. H., Gillooly, J. F., Allen, A. P., Savage, V. M., & West, G. B. (2004). "Toward a metabolic theory of ecology." Ecology, 85(7), 1771–1789.
References
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- ↑ Time Magazine's article about West
- ↑ World Knowledge Dialogue
- ↑ Geoffrey West's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ Geoffrey West publications in Google Scholar
External links
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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Geoffrey West |
- "Yeah, but what about the crayfish?" - Article about West's scaling law work on PhysicsWorld.com
- Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems - Talk he gave at Google
- The surprising math of cities and corporations - TED Talk
- "New York Times" article about West's work on biological scaling
- New York Times article about West's work on cities
- "Dr. West's work on the origin of biological scaling laws featured on PBS NOVA on YouTube
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- 1940 births
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Complex systems scientists
- English biophysicists
- English physicists
- Living people
- Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
- People from Santa Fe, New Mexico
- People from Taunton
- Stanford University alumni
- University of New Mexico faculty
