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

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History of science

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Paleontology

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Physics

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Technology

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  1. ^ "Coma Berenicids". Meteor Showers Online. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  2. ^ Pace, Eric (31 December 1998). "R. E. Schreiber, 88, Nuclear Bomb Physicist". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  3. ^ Chang, M. C. (1959). "Fertilization of Rabbit Ova in vitro". Nature. 184 (4684): 466–67. Bibcode:1959Natur.184..466C. doi:10.1038/184466a0. PMID 13809155.
  4. ^ Greep, Roy O. (1991). "Min Chueh Chang". Biographical Memoirs. United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  5. ^ Karlson Peter; Lüscher Martin (1959). "Pheromones: a new term for a class of biologically active substances". Nature. 183 (4653): 55–56. Bibcode:1959Natur.183...55K. doi:10.1038/183055a0. PMID 13622694.
  6. ^ Grassé, P.-P. (1959). "La reconstruction du nid et les coordinations inter-individuelles chez Belicositermes natalensis et Cubitermes sp. La théorie de la Stigmergie: Essai d'interprétation du comportement des termites constructeurs". Insectes Sociaux (6): 41–80.
  7. ^ "Disc Electrophoresis". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  8. ^ Gardner, Martin (October 1959). "Mathematical Games: Problems involving questions of probability and ambiguity". Scientific American. 201 (4): 174–182. Bibcode:1959SciAm.201d.174G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1059-174.
  9. ^ Gardner, Martin (November 1959). "Mathematical Games: How three modern mathematicians disproved a celebrated conjecture of Leonhard Euler". Scientific American. 201 (5): 188. Bibcode:1959SciAm.201e.181G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1159-181.
  10. ^ Iwasawa, Kenkichi (1959). "On Γ-extensions of algebraic number fields". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 65 (4): 183–226. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1959-10317-7. ISSN 0002-9904. MR 0124316. Zbl 0089.02402.
  11. ^ "Minamata disease". United Nations University. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
  12. ^ Machado, Calixto (2005). "The first organ transplant from a brain-dead donor". Neurology. 64 (11): 1938–42. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000163515.09793.cb. PMID 15955947.
  13. ^ McLaughlin, Thomas P.; et al. (May 2000). "A Review of Criticality Accidents" (PDF). CSRIC. Los Alamos National Laboratory. p. 96. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-26. Radiation doses were intense, being estimated at 205, 320, 410, 415, 422, and 433 rem.74 Of the six persons present, one died and the other five recovered after severe cases of radiation sickness.
  14. ^ Johnston, Wm. Robert (2005-09-14). "Vinca reactor accident, 1958". Database of radiological incidents and related events – Johnston's Archive. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
  15. ^ Martin, Douglas (2010-10-20). "Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". The New York Times.
  16. ^ Pence, G. E. (2008). "Preventing the Global Spread of AIDS". Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Shaped and Define Medical Ethics. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 330.
  17. ^ "The man who saved a million lives: Nils Bohlin - inventor of the seat belt". The Independent. London. 2009-08-19. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
  18. ^ "Apparatus for facilitating the loading and unloading of passengers and cargo : US Grant US3046908A".
  19. ^ "1960 - Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Transistor Demonstrated". The Silicon Engine. Computer History Museum.
  20. ^ Bassett, Ross Knox (2007). To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies and the Rise of MOS Technology. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 22. ISBN 9780801886393.
  21. ^ Chan, Yi-Jen (1992). Studies of InAIAs/InGaAs and GaInP/GaAs heterostructure FET's for high speed applications. University of Michigan. p. 1. The Si MOSFET has revolutionized the electronics industry and as a result impacts our daily lives in almost every conceivable way.
  22. ^ Wong, Kit Po (2009). Electrical Engineering. Vol. II. EOLSS Publications. p. 7. ISBN 9781905839780.
  23. ^ "13 Sextillion & Counting: The Long & Winding Road to the Most Frequently Manufactured Human Artifact in History". Computer History Museum. 2018-03-02. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  24. ^ Baker, R. Jacob (2011). CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation. John Wiley & Sons. p. 7. ISBN 978-1118038239.
  25. ^ Gould, R. Gordon (1959). "The LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation". In Franken, P. A.; Sands, R. H. (eds.). The Ann Arbor Conference on Optical Pumping, the University of Michigan, 15 June through 18 June 1959. p. 128. OCLC 02460155.
  26. ^ Challoner, Jack, ed. (2009). 1001 Inventions That Changed the World. London: Cassell. p. 754. ISBN 978-1-84403-611-0.
  27. ^ Graham, Lois (1959). Effect of adding a combustible to atmosphere surrounding diffusion flame (Thesis). OCLC 45226021.
  28. ^ "Alumni Awards 2015: Lifetime Achievement Award: Lois Graham (M.S. ME '49, Ph.D. '59)". Illinois Institute of Technology. 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  29. ^ Gallagher, James (2023-10-02). "Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-10-02.