Author

Books by Geoffrey West

Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist and Distinguished Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he served as president from 2005 to 2009. He spent decades at Los Alamos National Laboratory before turning his attention to the quantitative science of complex systems. His research on biological and urban scaling laws was named one of the most important scientific discoveries of recent decades by several publications. West was born in Somerset, England, and received his doctorate from Stanford University. Scale, published in 2017, is his first book for a general audience.