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	==Career in India==		==Career in India==

	Chitaley received a BSc and MSc from the University of Nagpur and a PhD from the University of Reading,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> having received an [[International Federation of University Women]] scholarship in the process.<ref name="rediff"/> Following completion of her PhD, Chitaley taught at the Institute of Science, Nagpur, The Institute of Science, Bombay,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> and was named a fellow of the [[Geological Society of London]].<ref name="Geological Society">{{cite book \|title= Proceedings, Issues 1479-1529 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cEcAQAAMAAJ&q=shyamala+chitaley \|accessdate=11 June 2013 \|year=1952 \|publisher=Geological Society of London \|page=cxiii}}</ref> She held the chairs in botany at each institution until a mandatory retirement at age 60.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> Her research in India focused on the flora of the [[Upper Cretaceous]].<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club">{{cite web\|url=http://ncfclub.org/shya2.html\|title=Dr. Shya Chitaley 1918-2013\|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->\|publisher=North Coast Fossil Club\|accessdate=11 June 2013\|archive-url=https://~~www~~.~~webcitation~~.org/~~6HIUOcfNX?url=~~http://ncfclub.org/shya2.html\|archive-date=~~11 June~~ 2013\|url-status=live}}</ref>		Chitaley received a BSc and MSc from the University of Nagpur and a PhD from the University of Reading,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> having received an [[International Federation of University Women]] scholarship in the process.<ref name="rediff"/> Following completion of her PhD, Chitaley taught at the [[Institute of Science, Nagpur]] and The [[Institute of Science, Bombay]],<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> and was named a fellow of the [[Geological Society of London]].<ref name="Geological Society">{{cite book \|title= Proceedings, Issues 1479-1529 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cEcAQAAMAAJ&q=shyamala+chitaley \|accessdate=11 June 2013 \|year=1952 \|publisher=Geological Society of London \|page=cxiii}}</ref> She held the chairs in botany at each institution until a mandatory retirement at age 60.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> Her research in India focused on the flora of the [[Upper Cretaceous]].<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club">{{cite web\|url=http://ncfclub.org/shya2.html\|title=Dr. Shya Chitaley 1918-2013\|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->\|publisher=North Coast Fossil Club\|accessdate=11 June 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502021154/http://www.ncfclub.org/shya2.html\|archive-date=2 May 2013\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	==Career in the United States==		==Career in the United States==
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	In 1980, Chitaley was hired by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as the museum's first paleobotanist. Chitaley built the museum's paleobotany collection from approximately 500 pieces to over 30,000 by acquiring a disused collection from the [[University of Cincinnati]] worth millions of dollars.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/><ref name="rediff"/> Chitaley's research in Cleveland focused on [[Lycopodiophyta]] from the [[Devonian]] Period [[Cleveland Shale]]s.<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club"/> In 1996 she discovered a new Devonian lycopsid, which she named ''[[Clevelandodendron ohioensis]]'' in honor of Cleveland's 1996 bicentennial.<ref name="American Journal of Botany">{{cite journal \|last1=Chitaley \|first1=Shya \|last2=Pigg \|first2=Kathleen B. \|year=1996 \|title=''Clevelandodendron ohioensis'', gen. Et sp. Nov., A slender upright lycopsid from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale of Ohio\|journal=American Journal of Botany \|volume=83 \|issue=6 \|pages=781–789 \|publisher=Botanical Society of America \|doi= 10.2307/2445855\|jstor=2445855 }}</ref> Chitaley also developed a technique of preserving fossilized material in [[coal ball]]s using wax, which came to be known as the "Chitaley technique".<ref name="rediff"/>		In 1980, Chitaley was hired by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as the museum's first paleobotanist. Chitaley built the museum's paleobotany collection from approximately 500 pieces to over 30,000 by acquiring a disused collection from the [[University of Cincinnati]] worth millions of dollars.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/><ref name="rediff"/> Chitaley's research in Cleveland focused on [[Lycopodiophyta]] from the [[Devonian]] Period [[Cleveland Shale]]s.<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club"/> In 1996 she discovered a new Devonian lycopsid, which she named ''[[Clevelandodendron ohioensis]]'' in honor of Cleveland's 1996 bicentennial.<ref name="American Journal of Botany">{{cite journal \|last1=Chitaley \|first1=Shya \|last2=Pigg \|first2=Kathleen B. \|year=1996 \|title=''Clevelandodendron ohioensis'', gen. Et sp. Nov., A slender upright lycopsid from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale of Ohio\|journal=American Journal of Botany \|volume=83 \|issue=6 \|pages=781–789 \|publisher=Botanical Society of America \|doi= 10.2307/2445855\|jstor=2445855 }}</ref> Chitaley also developed a technique of preserving fossilized material in [[coal ball]]s using wax, which came to be known as the "Chitaley technique".<ref name="rediff"/>

	In 2006, a newly discovered species of conifer from the [[Permian]] Period, ''[[Prototaxoxylom chitaleyii]]'' was named in Chitaley's honor.<ref name="Diamond Jubilee">{{cite conference \|url=http://www.bsip.res.in/pdf/diamon-jubilee-Abstract_Volume.PDF \|title=Occurrence of Prototaxoxylon chitaleyii, a new species of coniferous wood from Dhanoli, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra \|last1=Chougule \|first1=Padmaja M. \|date=November 2006 \|publisher=Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany \|book-title=Proceedings of the Diamond Jubilee International Conference at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany \|location=Lucknow, India }}</ref><ref name="CMNH">{{cite web \|url=http://www.cmnh.org/site/ResearchandCollections/InTheField.aspx \|title=In The Field: Research News \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Natural History \|accessdate=11 June 2013 \|archive-url=https://~~www~~.~~webcitation~~.org/~~6HISZBciC?url=~~http://www.cmnh.org/site/ResearchandCollections/InTheField.aspx \|archive-date=11 June ~~2013~~ \|url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010 she won the Botanical Society of America award for her lifetime of contributions to paleobotany,<ref name="Paleobotany Society">{{cite web \|url=http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/paleo_contributions.php#2010 \|title=The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America Award for Contributions to Paleobotany \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|publisher=The Botanical Society of America \|accessdate=11 June 2013 \|archive-url=https://~~www~~.~~webcitation~~.org/~~6HIT9IGee?url=~~http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/paleo_contributions.php \|archive-date=11 June 2013 \|url-status=live }}</ref> which included nearly 150 publications.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/>		In 2006, a newly discovered species of conifer from the [[Permian]] Period, ''[[Prototaxoxylom chitaleyii]]'' was named in Chitaley's honor.<ref name="Diamond Jubilee">{{cite conference \|url=http://www.bsip.res.in/pdf/diamon-jubilee-Abstract_Volume.PDF \|title=Occurrence of Prototaxoxylon chitaleyii, a new species of coniferous wood from Dhanoli, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra \|last1=Chougule \|first1=Padmaja M. \|date=November 2006 \|publisher=Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany \|book-title=Proceedings of the Diamond Jubilee International Conference at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany \|location=Lucknow, India }}</ref><ref name="CMNH">{{cite web \|url=http://www.cmnh.org/site/ResearchandCollections/InTheField.aspx \|title=In The Field: Research News \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Natural History \|accessdate=11 June 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617070529/http://www.cmnh.org/site/ResearchandCollections/InTheField.aspx \|archive-date=17 June 2012 \|url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010 she won the Botanical Society of America award for her lifetime of contributions to paleobotany,<ref name="Paleobotany Society">{{cite web \|url=http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/paleo_contributions.php#2010 \|title=The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America Award for Contributions to Paleobotany \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|publisher=The Botanical Society of America \|accessdate=11 June 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608015824/http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/paleo_contributions.php \|archive-date=8 June 2013 \|url-status=live }}</ref> which included nearly 150 publications.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/>

	==Awards==		==Awards==
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'''Shyamala "Shya" Chitaley''' (15 February 1918 – 31 March 2013) was an [[Indian American]] [[Paleobotanist]] who had a nearly 60-year career of teaching and research in both the United States and India. She was the founder and first curator of the paleobotany department at the [[Cleveland Museum of Natural History]], winner of the 2010 [[Botanical Society of America]] Award for Contributions to Paleobotany, and author of approximately 150 publications.

==Early life==

Chitaley was born Shyamala Dixit in 1918 in [[Maharashtra, India]].<ref name="Plain Dealer">{{cite news |title=Researcher Shyamala Chitaely worked until nearly age 93 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History: News obituary |first=Grant |last=Segall |url=http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2013/05/researcher_shyamala_chitaely_w.html |newspaper=Plain Dealer |date=10 May 2013 |accessdate=11 June 2013}}</ref> Raised mostly by her father (her mother died when she was 9 years old), she also [[homeschooled|educated at home]].<ref name="rediff">{{cite news |title=Retirement benefits |first=Sonia |last=Chopra |url=http://www.rediff.com/us/2000/jun/26us.htm |newspaper=Rediff news |date=26 June 2000 |accessdate=11 June 2013}}</ref> As was traditional at the time, she married Dinkar Vaman Chitaley, a corporate lawyer,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> at a fairly young age.<ref name="rediff"/> While she faced discouragement and even physical threats about her higher education from some,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> she continued to pursue her studies with her husband Dinkar's encouragement.<ref name="rediff"/>

==Career in India==

Chitaley received a BSc and MSc from the University of Nagpur and a PhD from the University of Reading,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> having received an [[International Federation of University Women]] scholarship in the process.<ref name="rediff"/> Following completion of her PhD, Chitaley taught at the Institute of Science, Nagpur, The Institute of Science, Bombay,<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> and was named a fellow of the [[Geological Society of London]].<ref name="Geological Society">{{cite book |title= Proceedings, Issues 1479-1529 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cEcAQAAMAAJ&q=shyamala+chitaley |accessdate=11 June 2013 |year=1952 |publisher=Geological Society of London |page=cxiii}}</ref> She held the chairs in botany at each institution until a mandatory retirement at age 60.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/> Her research in India focused on the flora of the [[Upper Cretaceous]].<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club">{{cite web|url=http://ncfclub.org/shya2.html|title=Dr. Shya Chitaley 1918-2013|author=|publisher=North Coast Fossil Club|accessdate=11 June 2013|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6HIUOcfNX?url=http://ncfclub.org/shya2.html|archive-date=11 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Career in the United States==

Following her retirement from the Institute of Science, Bombay in 1978, Chitaley and her husband traveled to the United States to visit one of their sons who lived near [[Cleveland, Ohio]].<ref name="rediff"/> While searching for a teaching job in the United States, Chitaley became an [[American citizen]] and sold [[Avon Products]] door-to-door.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/>

In 1980, Chitaley was hired by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as the museum's first paleobotanist. Chitaley built the museum's paleobotany collection from approximately 500 pieces to over 30,000 by acquiring a disused collection from the [[University of Cincinnati]] worth millions of dollars.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/><ref name="rediff"/> Chitaley's research in Cleveland focused on [[Lycopodiophyta]] from the [[Devonian]] Period [[Cleveland Shale]]s.<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club"/> In 1996 she discovered a new Devonian lycopsid, which she named ''[[Clevelandodendron ohioensis]]'' in honor of Cleveland's 1996 bicentennial.<ref name="American Journal of Botany">{{cite journal |last1=Chitaley |first1=Shya |last2=Pigg |first2=Kathleen B. |year=1996 |title=''Clevelandodendron ohioensis'', gen. Et sp. Nov., A slender upright lycopsid from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale of Ohio|journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=83 |issue=6 |pages=781–789 |publisher=Botanical Society of America |doi= 10.2307/2445855|jstor=2445855 }}</ref> Chitaley also developed a technique of preserving fossilized material in [[coal ball]]s using wax, which came to be known as the "Chitaley technique".<ref name="rediff"/>

In 2006, a newly discovered species of conifer from the [[Permian]] Period, ''[[Prototaxoxylom chitaleyii]]'' was named in Chitaley's honor.<ref name="Diamond Jubilee">{{cite conference |url=http://www.bsip.res.in/pdf/diamon-jubilee-Abstract_Volume.PDF |title=Occurrence of Prototaxoxylon chitaleyii, a new species of coniferous wood from Dhanoli, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra |last1=Chougule |first1=Padmaja M. |date=November 2006 |publisher=Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany |book-title=Proceedings of the Diamond Jubilee International Conference at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany |location=Lucknow, India }}</ref><ref name="CMNH">{{cite web |url=http://www.cmnh.org/site/ResearchandCollections/InTheField.aspx |title=In The Field: Research News |author= |publisher=Cleveland Museum of Natural History |accessdate=11 June 2013 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6HISZBciC?url=http://www.cmnh.org/site/ResearchandCollections/InTheField.aspx |archive-date=11 June 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010 she won the Botanical Society of America award for her lifetime of contributions to paleobotany,<ref name="Paleobotany Society">{{cite web |url=http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/paleo_contributions.php#2010 |title=The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America Award for Contributions to Paleobotany |author= |publisher=The Botanical Society of America |accessdate=11 June 2013 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6HIT9IGee?url=http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/paleo_contributions.php |archive-date=11 June 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> which included nearly 150 publications.<ref name="Plain Dealer"/>

==Awards==
*2004: Cardinal Award, Ohio Department of Natural Resources<ref name="Ohio DNR">{{cite press release |last=Beathard |first=Jane |title=Ohioans honores for commitment to the state's natural resources |date=28 October 2004 |publisher=Ohio Department of Natural Resources |url=http://www.ohiodnr.com/news/oct04/1028halloffame/tabid/12539/Default.aspx |accessdate=2013-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611010101/http://www.ohiodnr.com/news/oct04/1028halloffame/tabid/12539/Default.aspx|archive-date=2013-06-11 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2006: Medal for excellence in paleobotanical research and lifetime achievement award, Birbal-Savitri Sahni Foundation<ref name="North Coast Fossil Club"/>
*2010: Award for Contributions to Paleobotany, The Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America<ref name="Paleobotany Society"/>
*2011: Distinguished career award, Association of Midwestern Museums<ref name="AMM">{{Cite web|url=http://www.midwestmuseums.org/pdfs/AMM_2011_AWARDS.pdf |title=AMM 2011 Awards |author= |publisher=Association of Midwestern Museums|accessdate=11 June 2013 }}</ref>

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