He, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine " for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material ".

Dr. Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS ( 19 May 1914, Vienna, Austria – 6 February 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom ) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.

Bonnie Lynn Bassler ( born 1962 ) is an American molecular biologist.

In 1962 lectures, to illustrate thermodynamics, physicist Richard Feynman analyzed a putative Maxwell's demon device, a tiny paddlewheel attached to a ratchet, showing why it cannot extract energy from molecular motion of a fluid at equilibrium.

Among the 39 WSU alumni to receive the Regents ' Distinguished Alumnus Award since 1962 are recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Irwin Rose, broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, astronaut John M. Fabian, cartoonist Gary Larson, molecular evolutionist Allan Wilson, banking executive Phyllis J. Campbell, Entrepreneur Clint Hedin, sociologist William Julius Wilson, author and film director Sherman Alexie, veterinary researcher John Gorham, wheat breeder Orville Vogel, physicist Philip Abelson and physician Neva Abelson.

In recognition of this work, he, Francis Crick and James Watson were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, " for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.

The notion of the existence of a so-called " molecular clock " was first attributed to Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling who, in 1962, noticed that the number of amino acid differences in hemoglobin between different lineages changes roughly linearly with time, as estimated from fossil evidence.

* Thomas A. Steitz, 1962, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Starting in 1962, Glaser changed his field of research to molecular biology, starting with a project on ultraviolet-induced cancer.

The notion that such molecular analysis could help scientists decode evolutionary patterns in organisms was formalized in the published papers of Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling in 1962 and 1965.

During 1962, Pauling and Zuckerkandl published their first paper using the molecular clock concept ( though not yet by that name ).

In 1962, Silent Spring by American biologist Rachel Carson was published.

In 1962, marine biologist and ecologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring helped to mobilize the environmental movement by alerting the public to toxic pesticides, such as DDT, bioaccumulating in the environment.

William Beebe (), born Charles William Beebe ( July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962 ) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author.

* Rachel Carson, ( May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964 ) a marine biologist who became a famous writer, best known for her 1962 book Silent Spring, which confronted the chemical industry and helped to spur legislation for regulation and control of DDT and other industrially and domestically used substances.

He was charged with developing a system of diagnoses which could be used for political purposes, and diagnosed ( or was involved with ) a series of famous dissident cases ( including biologist Zhores Medvedev, mathematician Leonid Plyushch and Vladimir Bukovsky, whom Snezhnevsky diagnosed as schizophrenic on 5 July 1962 ).

He was charged with cynically developing a system of diagnosis which could be bent for political purposes, and he himself diagnosed or was involved in a series of famous dissident cases, including those of the biologist Zhores Medvedev, the mathematician Leonid Plyushch, and Vladimir Bukovsky whom Snezhnevsky diagnosed as schizophrenic on 5 July 1962.

In 1962 a book by U. S. biologist Rachel Carson started a storm of concerns about environmental pollution, first focused on DDT and other pesticides, some of them also halocarbons.

In 1962, Silent Spring by American biologist Rachel Carson was published.

* " Anna ( Go to Him )", a 1962 song by Arthur Alexander, later covered by The Beatles

John Alexander Scott Coutts ( 9 December 1902 – 5 August 1962 ), better known as John Willie, was a pioneering fetish photographer, illustrator, and bondage artist.

* Robert J. Alexander, “ Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre and ‘ Indo-America ,’” in Prophets of the Revolution: Profiles of Latin American Leaders ( New York: Macmillan Company: 1962 ), 75-108.

* Alexander Lernet-Holenia: Das Halsband der Königin ( Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna, 1962, historical study on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, including a description of Cagliostro's background )

* Concertmasters: Steven Staryk ( 1960 – 1962 ), Herman Krebbers ( 1962 – 1979 ), Jaap van Zweden ( 1979 – 1995 ), Rudolf Koelman ( 1996 – 1999 ), Alexander Kerr ( 1996 – 2006 )

* Alexander Maxwell Campbell ( 1888 – 1962 ), Canadian politician commonly known as Max Campbell

He has been portrayed on film three times: in the 1951 film Sirocco ( dealing with the Syrian insurrection against France ), by Jeff Corey ; David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), played by Alec Guinness, and in the unofficial sequel to Lawrence, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia ( 1990 ) by Alexander Siddig.

* Alexander Lernet-Holenia: Das Halsband der Königin ( The Queen's Necklace, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna, 1962, historical study on the affair of the diamond necklace )

* Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore ( 1872 – 1962 ), Scottish soldier, politician and Victoria Cross recipient

( 1898 – 1962 ) Beiträge zu Leben, Werk und Persönlichkeit, eds., Karin Reich and Alexander Kreuzer ( Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg, 2007 ).

* Alexander Gym I ( 1962 )

* Gerschenkron, Alexander ( 1962 ), Economic backwardness in historical perspective, a book of essays, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

In addition, he published several books for young readers, including a biography of Alexander the Great in 1953, and Meet Soviet Russia, a two-volume adaptation of Inside Russia Today in 1962.

Founded in 1962 by Alexander Gibson, Scottish Opera has grown to become one of the world's most renowned opera companies, building a considerable reputation for its distinguished productions.

* Sir Alexander Gibson ( 1962 – 1986 )

He has two daughters, Camilla ( born 1962 ) and Jessica ( born 1970 ) and two sons James ( born 1962 ) and Alexander ( born 1968 ).

Alexander John Leslie ( b. 1962 )

* Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore ( 1871 – 1962 )

* Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB and FSB officer, anti-Putin political activist who died in London of radioactive poisoning, born 1962, died 2006

He was knighted as Sir Alexander Todd in 1954 and elevated to the peerage as Baron Todd of Trumpington in the County of Cambridgeshire in 1962.

* Victor Alexander Wrottesley, 4th Baron Wrottesley ( 1873 – 1962 )

The Fourteenth Symphony was a creative response to Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, which Shostakovich had orchestrated in 1962, as well as to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia following Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring reforms there.