Howard E. Bigelow

Howard E. Bigelow
Born June 28, 1923
Died November 21, 1987 (aged 64)
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Citizenship United States
Fields Mycology
Institutions Department of Botany, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Montreal
Alma mater University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Doctoral advisor Alexander H. Smith
Known for Agaric mycota of the New England area
Author abbrev. (botany) H.E. Bigelow

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 (19041986) and received his doctorate in 1956. He is the author of works on the fungi of the Clitocybe and Tricholomataceae genera.[1]

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