ENH: adds acknowledgements to readme and docs

[jsheunis]

Closes #307

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Patch coverage has no change and project coverage change: -10.57 ⚠️

Comparison is base (84ffaa7) 82.32% compared to head (455f6ba) 71.76%.

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- Coverage   82.32%   71.76%   -10.57%     
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  Files          32       31        -1     
  Lines        2173     2139       -34     
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- Hits         1789     1535      -254     
- Misses        384      604      +220     

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