Editing 1962 in science (section)

==Biology==
* May 1 – [[Douglas Harold Copp]] discovers of the hormone [[calcitonin]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Copp|first1=D. Harold|last2=Cameron|first2=E. C.|last3=Cheney|first3=Barbara A.|last4=Davidson|first4=A. George F.|last5=Henze|first5=K. G.|date=1962|title=Evidence for Calcitonin—A New Hormone from the Parathyroid That Lowers Blood Calcium|url=https://academic.oup.com/endo/article-lookup/doi/10.1210/endo-70-5-638|journal=[[Endocrinology (journal)|Endocrinology]]|volume=70|issue=5|pages=638–649|doi=10.1210/endo-70-5-638|pmid=13881211 |issn=0013-7227|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* August – The "[[Hastings Rarities]]" are exposed as [[Ornithology|ornithological]] [[fraud]]s.<ref>In the magazine ''[[British Birds (magazine)|British Birds]]''.</ref>
* [[Emile Zuckerkandl]] and [[Linus Pauling]] publish a paper introducing what will become known as the [[molecular clock]] concept.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zuckerkandl|first1=E.|first2=L.|last2=Pauling|editor=Kasha, M.|editor2=Pullman, B.|title=Horizons in Biochemistry: Albert Szent-Györgyi dedicatory volume|year=1962|publisher=Academic Press|location=New York|pages=189–225|chapter=Molecular Disease, Evolution and Genetic Heterogeneity}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Gregory J.|last=Morgan|title=Emile Zuckerkandl, Linus Pauling, and the Molecular Evolutionary Clock, 1959-1965|journal=Journal of the History of Biology|volume=31|issue=2|year=1998|pages=155–178|doi=10.1023/A:1004394418084|pmid=11620303|s2cid=5660841 }}</ref>
* The first [[nude mouse]] strain is discovered by N. R. Grist at [[Ruchill]] Hospital's Brownlee virology laboratory in [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mouse (immunodeficient)|url=http://www.animalresearch.info/en/science/animalsused/mouse-nude|work=AnimalResearch.info|accessdate=2011-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904024255/http://www.animalresearch.info/en/science/animalsused/mouse-nude|archive-date=2011-09-04|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NMRI Nude Mice|url=http://www.criver.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/NMRI%20nude24.04.07.pdf|publisher=Charles River|accessdate=2011-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001044057/http://www.criver.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/NMRI%20nude24.04.07.pdf|archive-date=2011-10-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[Neuroscience Research Program]] (NRP) is established by [[Francis O. Schmitt]] ''et al''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsoffice.mit.edu/1995/obit-schmitt|title=Francis O. Schmitt, pioneer in molecular biology and neuroscience, dies at 91|date=1995-10-04|publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]|work=MIT News|accessdate=2017-06-19}}</ref>