Education
University of Cambridge. Stanford University.
University of Cambridge. Stanford University.
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.
