Evelyn Anderson was born in
Willmar, Minnesota, to Swedish immigrants parents. She attended
Carleton College in
Northfield, Minnesota, where she obtained her bachelor's. In 1928, she gained her M.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley, School of Medicine. During her time at Berkeley, her research culminated into two papers about
vitamin A and
nutrition. She continued on to receive her Ph.D. in
biochemistry from the
University of Montreal in 1934. While working on her dissertation, Anderson co-discovered ACTH with
James Collip and
David Landsborough Thomson. In a paper published in 1933, she explained its function in the body. In 1935 she published another paper with Collip on the discovery of an anti-thyroid hormone which greatly contributed to the general knowledge and understanding of anti-hormones. == Career ==