Today in Science (0809)

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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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.