![]() ![]() He uses pictures and diagrams to explain the facts, with a leisurely text to put the facts into their proper setting, and no equations. West does remarkably well as a writer, making a complicated world seem simple. Scale is a progress report, summarizing the insights that West and his colleagues at Santa Fe have achieved. Their aim is to reach a deep understanding of the complexities of the natural environment and of human society, using the methods of science. The Santa Fe Institute is leading the world in complexity science, with a mixed group of physicists, biologists, economists, political scientists, computer experts, and mathematicians working together. ![]() After retiring from Los Alamos, he became director of the nearby Santa Fe Institute, where he switched from physics to a broader interdisciplinary program known as complexity science. Geoffrey West spent most of his life as a research scientist and administrator at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, running programs concerned not with nuclear weapons but with peaceful physics. Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes/Thomson Reuters FoundationĬiudad Nezahualcóyotl, part of greater Mexico City, 2016 ![]()
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