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List of years in science
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The year
1963 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Contents
1
Astronomy and space exploration
2
Biology
3
Physics
4
Awards
5
Births
6
Deaths
Astronomy and space exploration
May 15
-
Mercury program
:
NASA
launches the last mission of the program
Mercury 9
(on
June 12
NASA Administrator
James E. Webb
told Congress the program was complete).
Biology
Geneticist
J. B. S. Haldane
coins the word "
clone
".
Physics
D. H. Frisch
and
J. H. Smith
prove
radioactive decay
of
mesons
is slowed by their motion. (See
Einstein
's
special relativity
and
general relativity
).
Awards
Nobel Prizes
Physics
-
Eugene Paul Wigner
,
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
,
J. Hans D. Jensen
Chemistry
-
Karl Ziegler
,
Giulio Natta
Medicine
-
Sir John Carew Eccles
,
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
,
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Births
Deaths
April 6
-
Otto Struve
(b.
1897
),
astronomer
.
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