1959 in science
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The year 1959 in science and technology included many events, some of which are included 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.
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.