Howard E. Bigelow Scientist

Howard E. Bigelow (1923–1987) was an American mycologist, born in 1923 in Greenfield, Massachusetts and died in 1987. He was wed to mycologist Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in 1956.He studied at Oberlin College from 1941 to 1943. He left college to fight in the American army. He returned to Oberlin after the war and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1949 and his Master of Arts in 1951. He studied botany at the University of Michigan under the guidance of Alexander Hanchett Smith (1904–1986) and received his doctorate in 1956. He is the author of works on the fungi of the Clitocybe and Tricholomataceae genera.

Personal facts

Birth dateJune 28, 1923
Citizenship
United States
Date of deathNovember 21, 1987
Place of death
Greenfield Massachusetts , Massachusetts
Education
University of Michigan
Known for
New England

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doctoral advisor
Field of study
Mycology

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