List of members of the National Academy of Sciences / 1959
In 1959, the United States National Academy of Sciences elected 34 people to its membership .
Newly elected members
- Philip H. Abelson (1913-2004)
- Viktor Amazaspowitsch Ambartsumian (1908–1996)
- Walker Bleakney (1901-1992)
- David Bonner (1916–1964)
- Tom Bonner (1910–1961)
- Walter H. Brattain (1902–1987)
- Leo Brewer (1919-2005)
- Frank Brink, Jr. (1910-2007)
- Edward Bullard (1907-1980)
- Jens C. Clausen (1891–1969)
- Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998)
- John D. Ferry (1912-2002)
- Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901–1983)
- H. Bentley Glass (1906-2005)
- Max Hartmann (1876–1962)
- Melville Herskovits (1895-1963)
- William V. Hodge (1903-1975)
- Herman M. Kalckar (1908-1991)
- Konrad B. Krauskopf (1910-2003)
- I. Michael Lerner (1910–1977)
- Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976)
- Harry Olson (1902-1982)
- Carl Pfaffmann (1913–1994)
- Richard Joel Russell (1895–1971)
- John A. Simpson (1916-2000)
- D. Stanley Tarbell (1913-1999)
- Henry Taube (1915-2005)
- James A. Van Allen (1914-2006)
- Cecil J. Watson (1901-1983)
- Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978)
- Fred L. Whipple (1906-2004)
- William Barry Wood (1910-1971)
- Clarence Zener (1905-1993)
- Raymond E. Zirkle (1902–1988)