Detlev Wulf Bronk (August 13, 1897 – November 17, 1975) was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator.

Hopkins did just that, building Jenkins Hall in 1950 specifically to house Biophysics and adding faculty and research facilities.

Bronk believed the nation's universities had a responsibility to prepare students to improve the world, regardless of their academic curriculum.

"[21] In addition to guiding Hopkins through its post-war "demobilization," Bronk believed strongly in maintaining his own presence in the scientific community.

He firmly espoused academic freedom and resisted attempts by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy to have Johns Hopkins University dismiss Professor Owen Lattimore.

[citation needed] Bronk is quoted as saying: A great deal of undergraduate education is built on ... telling a student what to do—at the very time he is developing intellectual habits for life.