[1][3][4] She studied at Cornell University beginning in 1930, and graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1934, a master's degree and a Ph.D. in entomology in 1938.

In 1942, she joined the Harriet Lane Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital as a biomedical research analyst in bacteriology.

[1][4] After working for Johns Hopkins for three years, she left and bought a farm in Sykesville, Maryland, where she further pursued her interests in moss and entomology.

She was the first to collect a number of species in Maryland, including Polytrichum strictum, Gymnostomum aeruginosum, Brachythecium velutinum, Trematodon longicollis, Pohlia annotina, Ephemerum spinulosum, Funaria americana, and Pottia truncata.

[4] Elizabeth Gault Fisher died on January 1, 2000, at Carroll County General Hospital in Westminster, Maryland.