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The year 1963 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Congress the program was complete).

Arecibo Observatory officially begins operation.

BIOLOGY

Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word " Clone ".

PHYSICS

D. H. Frisch and J. H. Smith prove Radioactive Decay of Meson s is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein 's Special Relativity and General Relativity ).

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- 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

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April 6 - Otto Struve (b. 1897 ), Astronomer .