Editing 1963 in science (section)

==Biology==
* Geneticist [[J. B. S. Haldane]] coins the word "[[Clone (genetics)|clone]]".
* [[Molecular biologist]] [[Emile Zuckerkandl]] and [[Physical chemistry|physical chemist]] [[Linus Pauling]] introduce the term ''[[paleogenetics]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pauling|first1=L.|last2=Zuckerkandl|first2=E.|year=1963|title=Chemical paleogenetics: molecular restoration studies of extinct forms of life|journal=Acta Chemica Scandinavica|volume=17|page=89|doi=10.3891/acta.chem.scand.17s-0009 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Konrad Lorenz]] publishes ''[[On Aggression]]'' (''Das sogenannte Böse: Zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression'').
* [[Nikolaas Tinbergen|Niko Tinbergen]] poses his [[Tinbergen's four questions|four questions]] to be asked of any animal behavior.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Tinbergen|first=Niko|year=1963|title=On Aims and Methods in Ethology|journal=Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie|volume=20|issue=4|pages=410–433|url=http://www.esf.edu/EFB/faculty/documents/Tinbergen1963onethology.pdf|doi=10.1111/j.1439-0310.1963.tb01161.x|access-date=2011-03-17|archive-date=2011-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609122714/http://www.esf.edu/EFB/faculty/documents/Tinbergen1963onethology.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sydney Brenner]] proposes the use of ''[[Caenorhabditis elegans]]'' as a [[model organism]] for the investigation primarily of neural development in animals.