1959 in science

1959 in science

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

* 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

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Emilio Gino Segrè, - Owen Chamberlain
** Chemistry - Jaroslav Heyrovský
** Medicine - Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg

Births

* December 25 - Michael P. Anderson (d. 2003), American astronaut.

Deaths

Organisations

*Austria joins CERN.


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