Dorothy Andersen, pediatrician and pathologist, was the first to identify this disease.
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Cystic fibrosis. Dorothy Andersen, a graduate of John Hopkins University Medical School and Columbia University, first observed evidence of the disease while conducting an autopsy on a child in 1935. She developed diagnostics test for the disease but was less successful in finding a cure.