X-ray picture of the natrium salt of the DNA [Source: Encyklopedia of Modern Physics, Warsaw, PWN]
The shape of DNA was not discovered by any super-biological microscope but by Physics methods.
J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick in 1958 observing quite a complicated X-ray interferograms of the DNA crystals, wondered if it were a single or a double spiral. Finally, their choice was correct what awarded them with a Nobel prize in 1962.
X-ray picture of the natrium salt of the DNA [Source: Encyklopedia
of Modern Physics, Warsaw, PWN]
