1959 In Science

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The year 1959 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu35ie/uu35ie0c.htm#chapter%20%20%204%20minamata%20disease

Computer science

IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe.

Physics

The neutrino is first experimentally detected, by Clyde Cowan and Fred Reines.
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

Russell Foley
Henk-Jan van Tuyl
December 25 - Michael P. Anderson (d. 2003), American astronaut.

Deaths

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