- Geoffrey West
Geoffrey Brian West (1940) is an American
theoretical physicist , administrator and president of theSanta 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 pursuedgraduate studies inCalifornia atStanford .He eventually became a Stanford faculty member before he joined the particle theory group at
New Mexico 'sLos Alamos National Laboratory . After Los Alamos, he became president of theSanta Fe Institute , where he works on biological issues (such aspower laws inbiology such as theallometric 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
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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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