Harvey Mudd physicist named Cottrell Scholar
Harvey Mudd College physics professor Daniel Tamayo was recently named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar. Photo/courtesy of Harvey Mudd College
On February 12 Harvey Mudd College physics professor Daniel Tamayo was named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar. The award, from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, comes with a $120,000 grant.
“It’s exciting to become a part of and interact with a remarkable group of scholars across many different fields and interests, particularly at a time when federal funding for science is so uncertain,” Tamayo wrote in a news release. “This grant will allow us to integrate some of our group’s recent theoretical developments into our open-source numerical packages and probe the chaotic early phases of planetary systems’ lives. This will help elucidate the dominant physical processes shaping the orbital configurations that planetary systems settle into, which we can test against the large and rapidly expanding demographics of planetary systems discovered around other stars.”
Cottrell Scholars are chosen from public and private research universities throughout the U.S. and Canada. This year’s winners, viewable at rescorp.org, includes 23 institutions across 14 states and Canada.
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