Education
Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University.
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1922, and her Doctor of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 1926. She developed a diagnostic test of cystic fibrosis in the 1940s, and also contributed to training heart surgeons and to the study of nutrition. Andersen died from lung cancer on March 3, 1963 in New York City.
She was inducted into the National Women"s Hall of Fame in 2002 for her scientific work.