# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-west
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:19:36.853Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-west"
name: "Geoffrey West"
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description: "Geoffrey Brian West 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. Among other things, his work states that with the doubling of a city's population, salaries per capita will generally increase by 15%."
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birthDate: "1940-12-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump