Question: Facts: - known for: agaric mycota of the new england area - fields: mycology - death date: 21 november 1987 - workplaces: department university of montreal of botany , university of massachusetts amherst , - doctoral advisor: alexander h. smith - author abbrev bot: h.e. bigelow - birth date: 28 june 1923 - name: howard e. bigelow - citizenship: united states - death place: greenfield , massachusetts - alma mater: university of michigan , ann arbor Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of howard e. bigelow .
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howard e. bigelow -lrb- 1923 -- 1987 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1904 -- 1986 -rrb- and received his doctorate in 1956 .he is the author of works on the fungi of the '' clitocybe '' and '' tricholomataceae '' genera .