Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA, 1953
London's Natural History Museum
photo by Mo at Neurophilosophy
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I think it looks more like this.
Though I still need to see London's Natural History Museum.
Sorry, that's a bit of the Large Hadron Collider, in case the link wasn't clear.