​​'One cannot plan for the unexpected. Human curiosity, the ur | The Nobel Prize

​​"One cannot plan for the unexpected. Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world."

Aaron Klug was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy. During the 1960s, Klug combined methods from x-ray crystallography with electron microscopy in order to study complex structures of DNA and proteins in organisms such as various viruses and in chromatin, which forms the chromosomes inside cell nuclei. He was first introduced to the investigating the structure of viruses by Rosalind Franklin: "From then on my fate was sealed," he said.