Editing 1959 in science (section)

==Biology==
* January 1 – [[Cultivar]]s of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
* March 26 – [[Jersey]] Zoo (later [[Durrell Wildlife Park]]) established by [[Gerald Durrell]].
* August 8 – [[Min Chueh Chang]] reports the first mammals, a litter of rabbits, grown from [[ovum|ova]] having undergone [[In vitro fertilisation|''in vitro'' fertilisation]] and transferred to a surrogate mother.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Fertilization of Rabbit Ova ''in vitro''|pages=466–67|first=M. C.|last=Chang|doi=10.1038/184466a0|pmid=13809155|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|year=1959|volume=184|issue=4684|bibcode = 1959Natur.184..466C }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Roy O.|last=Greep|title=Min Chueh Chang|url=http://books.nap.edu//html/biomems/mchang.html|work=Biographical Memoirs|publisher=[[United States National Academy of Sciences]]|year=1991|accessdate=2011-08-15}}</ref>
*The term ''[[pheromone]]'' is coined.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/183055a0|author1=Karlson Peter|author2=Lüscher Martin|year=1959|title=Pheromones: a new term for a class of biologically active substances|journal=Nature|volume=183|issue=4653|pages=55–56|pmid=13622694|bibcode=1959Natur.183...55K}}</ref>
*[[Pierre-Paul Grassé]] invents the theory of [[stigmergy]] to explain the behavior of nest building in [[termites]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=P.-P.|last=Grassé|title=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|journal=Insectes Sociaux|issue=6|pages=41–80|year=1959}}</ref>
* The [[Caspian tiger]] becomes extinct in [[Iran]].