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finolex2··on Wilbur Wright's Letter to the Smithsonian (1899)
Wilbur Wright actually hoped to enroll at Yale and become a teacher, for which he enrolled in college prep courses. All that changed when he suffered a brutal injury during an ice hockey game, following which he retreated into a long depression and eventually opened a bicycle shop in 1992.
finolex2··on A watershed moment in understanding how H2O conducts electricity
Full paper can be found here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6316/1131

As in most chemistry/physics papers, the true marvel is often not the actual phenomena being studied, but the observational techniques used to study those phenomena. In this case, it's by complexing the hydronium cluster with molecules that accept H-Bonds increasingly strongly, and then tracking the frequency of every O-D stretch vibration in the complex, as a hydron is incrementally pulled to a neighbouring water molecule.