The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

* The Elements of Style ( with William Strunk, Jr .) ( 1959, republished 1972, 1979, 1999, 2005 )

William Wyler also matched this record upon winning his third Oscar in 1959.

* Most Inane Technical Advance: Percepto, designed by William Castle for his 1959 film, The Tingler starring Vincent Price.

The Hollywood directors and producers sometimes found ample opportunity for audience exploitation, with gimmicks such as 3-D and " Percepto " ( producer William Castle's pseudo-electric-shock technique used for The Tingler, 1959 ).

* 1959 – William T. Vollmann, American novelist

Elizabeth Mead ( 1909 – 1983 ), an artist and teacher, married cartoonist William Steig, and Priscilla Mead ( 1911 – 1959 ) married author Leo Rosten.

* 1959 – Flavor Flav ( William Jonathan Drayton Jr .), American rapper ( Public Enemy )

* 1959 – William R. Moses, American actor

* 1882 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral ( d. 1959 )

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

* March 6 – William D. Francis, Australian botanist ( d. 1959 )

** William Halsey, Jr., American admiral ( d. 1959 )

* June 9 – William S. Pye, American admiral ( d. 1959 )

* McLoughlin William G. Modern Revivalism, 1959.

At the same time Andrzej Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including such as Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain ( 1959 ), Hamlet ( 1960 ), and Two for the Seesaw ( 1963 ) by William Gibson.

* Raymond Foxall ( 1959 ) Song for a Prince: The Story of Llywelyn the Great covers the period from King John's invasion in 1211 to the execution of William de Braose.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

* Fearnside, W. Ward and William B. Holther, Fallacy: The Counterfeit of Argument, 1959.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

* Richard William Smith ( born 1959 ), Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

:* 1959: King Lear by William Shakespeare

Among the humor books, Beat, Beat, Beat was a 1959 Signet paperback of cartoons by Phi Beta Kappa Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the TV department of the Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

In 1959, he became Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), a position he held until his retirement in 1976.

* University Fellow ( UCLA ) 1958 – 1959

The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena became a companion facility to the adjacent Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and home court to the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA from October 1960 to December 1967, the Los Angeles Clippers also of the NBA from 1984 – 1999, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL from October to December 1967 during their inaugural 1967-68 season, the USC Trojans basketball team of the NCAA from 1959 – 2006, the UCLA Bruins Basketball team of the NCAA from 1959 – 1965 and again as a temporary home in 2011-2012, the Los Angeles Blades of the Western Hockey League from 1961 to 1967, the Los Angeles Sharks of the WHA from 1972 – 1974, the Los Angeles Cobras of the AFL in 1988, and the original Los Angeles Stars of the ABA from 1968 – 1970.

Wolpert began his academic career in 1959, when he took a job as an instructor in the Department of History at UCLA.

Paul S. Weiss ( born October 10, 1959 ) is a leading American nanoscientist at UCLA.

He has won several International awards for scholarship, including a UNESCO award in 1959, and the Georgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement in Islamic Studies from UCLA in 1991.

* Norman Abrams – Author of leading casebooks on Federal Criminal Law, Anti-Terrorism Law and Evidence ; member of the faculty since 1959 ; former UCLA Vice Chancellor of Academic Personnel ; former acting Chancellor

* Associate Professor, UCLA ( 1959 )

* 1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist ( d. 1959 )

* December 17 – Claudia Benton ( b. c. 1959 ), pediatric neurologist.

* Oskar Vogt ( 1870 – 1959 ), German neurologist

He then specialized in neurology, at the Montreal Neurological Institute, becoming the only neurologist, in 1959, in the province until 1966.

Oskar Vogt ( April 6, 1870 – July 30, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physician and neurologist.

His was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year ( 1959 – 1960 ).

In 1959, Komarov was promoted to the rank of senior engineer-lieutenant.

Both Louth ( in 1934 and 1936 ) and Mayo ( in 1959 ) have contested the All Ireland senior final in the past.

They have three children ; John ( born in January 1959 ), Deborah ( born 1961 ) and Peter, who was born just after Charlton senior played in the 1966 World Cup final.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, ( 16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959 ), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940.

It wasn't until 1959 that senior foundation officials succeeded in getting the Ford Foundation ( and later USAID, and later still, the World Bank ) to sign on to the major philanthropic project, known now to the world as the Green Revolution, originally conceived as CIMMYT The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.

He taught honors freshman chemistry from 1959 to 1963 ( in keeping with a University tradition that senior faculty teach this class ).

Among these were distinctive geometric fireplaces for the Rouse ( 1954 ) and DuPont ( 1959 ) houses, the façade of Manuscript Society, one of Yale's secret senior groups ( 1962 ), and a design for the Mt.

The school opened at the beginning of January 1959, initially with freshman and sophomore students only, adding juniors in the fall and, starting in September 1960, its first senior class.

From 1959 until he moved to the U. S. in 1967, Good held government-funded positions and from 1964 a senior research fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, and the Atlas Computer Laboratory, where he continued his interests in computing, statistics and chess.

Chuck Collins ( born 1959 ) is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.

Harry Lawrence, a former Minister and the most senior of the MPs who had left the United Party in 1959, became temporary leader.

Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC, OWL ( 24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959 ), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s.

He served as chief judge from 1959 to 1960 and assumed senior status on February 15, 1966.

* Steve Smith ( general ) ( born 1959 ), senior officer in the Australian Army Reserve

Other aspects of R & D followed, and it is likely a recognisably similar car could have been introduced in 1959 subject to different senior management decisions.

In 1955, Summers became the major leagues ' senior umpire in service time ; he retired following the 1959 World Series, at age 63 the oldest umpire ever to serve on the AL staff, and later gave clinics and lectures at military bases throughout the world.

The town's only Intermediate association football team is Celbridge Town AFC, which was formed in 1959 and plays home games in St Patricks Park, with eleven schoolboy teams and three senior teams.

Beaumaris High School, which opened in 1958, is now the Beaumaris Campus of Sandringham College, catering to years 7-10 ( the senior campus for years 11-12 is situated in the neighbouring suburb of Sandringham ) and three primary schools, Beaumaris Primary School, which was first opened in 1916 on the site of the Beaumaris Tennis Club on Bodley Street, then moved to its current site as the population of the school grew, Beaumaris North Primary School, which first opened in 1959 and Stella Maris Primary School ( Catholic ).

* Peter Wallenberg ( junior ) (" Poker ") ( 1959 –), son of Peter Wallenberg ( senior ), businessman.

To rectify this situation the Central District Football Club was formed in 1959, and served a five year apprenticeship in the SANFL reserves competition, before entering the senior ranks for the 1964 season.

He started his senior career with Dundee as a teenager and made over 200 appearances in the Scottish Football League before joining Spurs in 1959.

In 1953, he became city attorney of Zephyrhills and worked from 1956 to 1959 as senior assistant to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.