Editing 1963 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* June – Guy Alexandre performs the first [[kidney transplantation]] from a heart-beating, brain-dead donor, at Saint Pierre Hospital, [[Leuven]], [[Belgium]].<ref name=transplant/>
* [[Thomas Starzl]] performs the first [[liver transplantation]], at the [[University of Colorado Health Sciences Center]].<ref name=transplant>{{cite journal|first=Calixto|last=Machado|title=The first organ transplant from a brain-dead donor|journal=[[Neurology (journal)|Neurology]]|year=2005|volume=64|pages=1938–42|issue=11|doi=10.1212/01.wnl.0000163515.09793.cb|pmid=15955947|s2cid=219219246}}</ref>
* James D. Hardy performs the first [[lung transplantation]].<ref name=transplant/>
* [[Measles vaccine]]s are introduced commercially.<ref>{{cite web|last=Webb|first=Nicholas|title=HSL Research Guides: Ernst Ludwig Wynder Autograph Collection: John Enders, Ph.D.|url=https://guides.library.nymc.edu/c.php?g=117959&p=767676|website=guides.library.nymc.edu|publisher=New York Medical College Health Sciences Library|access-date=2021-02-13|quote=In 1963, Pfizer introduced a deactivated measles vaccine, and Merck & Co introduced an attenuated measles vaccine.}}</ref>

* American endocrinologist [[Grant Liddle]] identifies [[Liddle's syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Grant W. Liddle|journal=Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association|year=1993|last=Christy|first=Nicholas P.|volume=104|pages=xliii–xlv|pmc=2376630|pmid=1343432}}</ref>
* French pediatrician [[Jérôme Lejeune]] first describes [[cri du chat syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lejeune, J.|title=3 Cases of partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5|language=fr|journal=Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences|volume=257|pages=3098–102|year=1963|pmid=14095841|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* [[Pentasomy X]] is first diagnosed.