One must not forget ALL the people that contribute when it comes to academic success. My supervisor gave a party and an Honorary Ph.D to Ed, one of the machinists in the department - he had built all the home-made electron spectrometers in the research group over a 20 year period. We, as students, always attended the machinists Xmas bash - they were more important than the academics in many a way!.

As for scholarly work, I've learned a lot from such "scholars" such as the likes of James Keelaghan (and many more). Indeed much of the world and a lot here can be deemed to be following scholarly pursuits.

Rana