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The year 1959 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- August 7 - The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- September 15 - Russian probe Luna 2 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon.
- September 19 - Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison publish in Nature their seminal paper Searching for Interstellar Communications, establishing the scientific rationale for SETI.
- Physicist Freeman Dyson first proposes the hypothetical Dyson sphere.
- Little Joe 2, a mission in the Mercury program, carried Sam the monkey into space.
Biology
- January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
- July - The medical research group studying Minamata disease comes to the conclusion that mercury is the cause. [1]
Computer science
- IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe.
Physics
- Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predict the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
Technology
- Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
- Eveready Battery engineer Lewis Urry invents the long-lasting alkaline battery.
- Pilkington Brothers patent the float glass process.
Awards
Births
- August 3 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
- December 25 - Michael P. Anderson (d. 2003), American astronaut.
Deaths
- February 15 - Owen Willans Richardson (b. 1879), British physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 1928
- June 9 - Adolf Windaus (b. 1876) German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928
Organisations
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