Geoffrey Brian West (born 15 December 1940)[1] is a British theoretical physicist and former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute.

He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities (see also, urban scaling).

Among other things, his work states that with the doubling of a city's population, salaries per capita will generally increase by 15%.

[2] Born in Taunton, Somerset, a rural town in western England, West moved to London when he was 13.

[4] West became a Stanford faculty member before he joined the particle theory group at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory.