1959 In Science

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1958 In Science

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1960 In Science

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The year 1959 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are included below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

August 7 - The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral , Florida .

September 15 - Russia n 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 .

Little Joe 2 , a mission in the Mercury Program , carried Sam The Monkey into space.

BIOLOGY

January 1 - Cultivar s of Plant s named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

PHYSICS

TECHNOLOGY

Eveready Battery engineer Lewis Urry invents the long-lasting Alkaline Battery .

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