Editing 1963 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 28 – [[Jean Piccard]] (born [[1884 in science|1884]]), [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-born [[Americans|American]] [[chemist]] and explorer.
* February 5 – [[Barnum Brown]] (born [[1873 in science|1873]]), American [[paleontologist]].
* April 6 – [[Otto Struve]] (born [[1897 in science|1897]]), [[Russia]]n [[astronomer]].
* May 11 – [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]] (born [[1888 in science|1888]]), American physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* May 19 – [[Walter Russell]] (born [[1871 in science|1871]]), American [[polymath]].
* June 16 – [[Eleanor Williams]] (born 1884), [[Australia]]n [[bacteriologist]] and [[serologist]].
* August 30 – [[Marietta Pallis]] (born [[1882 in science|1882]]), [[British people|British]] [[ecologist]].
* October 13 – [[Alan Arnold Griffith|Alan A. Griffith]] (born [[1893 in science|1893]]), [[English people|English]] [[Stress (physics)|stress]] engineer.
* October 2 – [[Olga Lepeshinskaya (biologist)|Olga Lepeshinskaya]] (born [[1871 in science|1871]]), [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Lysenkoism|Lysenkoist]] [[biologist]].
* October 25 – [[Karl von Terzaghi]] (born [[1883 in science|1883]]), [[Austria]]n "father of [[soil mechanics]]".
* November 13 – [[Margaret Murray]] (born [[1863 in science|1863]]), Indian-English anthropologist and author.<ref>{{cite book|first=Kathleen L.|last=Sheppard|title=The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology|location=Lanham|publisher=Lexington|year=2013|isbn=978-0-73917-417-3|page=223}}</ref>