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Q&A with SFI's Geoffrey West describes a career's journey from physics to biology

October 4, 2012

An interview with SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West recounts his journey from physics to biology, and the emergence of new theories in which the two fields converge.

Read the article in Discover (October 2012)

The cities and urbanization research project at SFI is an ongoing collaboration that includes Luis Bettencourt (SFI), Geoffrey West (SFI), Andres Gomez-Llevano (Arizona State University), José Lobo (Arizona State University), Nathaniel Rodriguez (Indiana University), Horacio Samaniego (University Austral-Chile and Los Alamos National Laboratory), Deborah Strumsky (UNC Charlotte), HyeJin Youn (SFI), Marcus Hamilton (SFI), Clio Andris (SFI and MIT), and other scientists.

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