Events
2001 - George W. Bush announces federal funding for limited research on embryonic stem cells.
Births
1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist
1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist
1911 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Deaths
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine
2006 - James van Allen, American physicist
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1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher
Events
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1895 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates the first radio receiver.
Vygotsky was born on November 17. His work is often presented with and compared to Piaget's, but they weren't born on the same day.