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2001 - George W. Bush announces federal funding for limited research on embryonic stem cells.
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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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