I get what you're saying, but it's not like someone looked through a microscope and actually saw one of these things for the first time. It's computers crunchi

I get what you're saying, but it's not like someone looked through a microscope and actually saw one of these things for the first time. It's computers crunching trillions of data points and spitting out a result. So it's not clear who "the first person to observe this" actually was.