They looked and saw Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography which sparked them to think about the double-helix structure, and from there, they played around with cafeteria items (forks and spoons and whatnot) to create a model that finally worked.
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The suns energy? which supports life, is transmitted to Earth in the form of, C, waves,
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Is there more to the question? I'm not sure what this would be.