Background
Margaret Barr was born on April 16, 1923 in the small town of Elkhorn in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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Margaret Margaret Barr-Bigelow
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She studied at the University of British Columbia receiving her bachelor"s degree in 1950 and her Master"s in 1952. In 1956, Barr married mycologist Howard East. Bigelow and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy for her work The taxonomic position of the genus Mycosphaerella as shown by comparative developmental studies one week later.
Career
Two years after the death of Howard in 1987, Barr moved to the city of Sidney in British Columbia where she died on April 1, 2008. In her lifetime, she published more than 150 scientific publications on various Ascomycetes, with the last one described in 2007. Barrella Ahn & Shearer, 1995
Barria Z.Q.Yuan, 1994
Barrina A.W.Ramaley, 1997
Barrmaelia Rappaz, 1995
Margaretbarromyces Mindell, Stockey, Beard & Currah, 2007
Mebarria J.Reid & C.Booth, 1989
Bricookea barriae Shoemaker & C.E.Babc., 1989
Gibbera barriae L.Holm & K.Holm, 1980
Hysterium barrianum East.W.A.Boehm, A.N.Mill., Mugambi, Huhndorf & C.L.Schoch, 2009
Leptosphaeria barriae Shoemaker, 1985
Paraphaeosphaeria barriae Checa, 2002
Phaeosphaeria barriae Fallah, J.L.Crane & Shearer, 1998
Plagiostoma barriae Sogonov, 2008
Trichometasphaeria barriae Chleb., 2009
Wettsteinina barriae Shoemaker & C.E.Babc., 1987.
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Canada