Detlev Wulf Bronk was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator.
13 Facts About Detlev Bronk
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Detlev Bronk is credited with establishing biophysics as a recognized discipline.
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Detlev Bronk held the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences between 1950 and 1962.
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Detlev Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, an early settler to New Netherland for whose relative Jonas Bronck the New York City borough The Bronx is named.
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In September 1921 Detlev Bronk married Helen Alexander Ramsey, who had been a fellow student at Swarthmore.
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When Detlev Bronk was offered the presidency of Johns Hopkins University in 1948, he accepted the position on the condition that Hopkins strengthen its program in biophysics.
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Detlev Bronk believed the nation's universities had a responsibility to prepare students to improve the world, regardless of their academic curriculum.
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Detlev Bronk recognized that, during World War II, the Hopkins faculty had spent most of their time performing defense-related research, and now it was time to rejuvenate the idea of research for the sake of learning and discovery.
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Detlev Bronk presided over the National Academy of Sciences and served on boards for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Science Advisory Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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Detlev Bronk was instrumental in reviving a plan to abolish undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins and turn Hopkins into a graduate-only institution.
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From 1953 to 1968 Detlev Bronk was president of The Rockefeller University.
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Detlev Bronk firmly espoused academic freedom and resisted attempts by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy to have Johns Hopkins University dismiss Professor Owen Lattimore.
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Detlev Bronk was credited with formulating the modern theory of the science of biophysics.