[1] Bronk graduated from Princeton University in 1952,[2] and then undertook a Rhodes Scholarship at Oriel College, Oxford University, conducting research under the supervision of Dr R B Fisher.
[2] Bronk then worked for the National Institutes of Health as a research scientist until 1958.
In 1958 he joined the academic staff of the department of zoology at Columbia University, spending the 1964–1965 academic year as a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford, under Dr D S Parsons.
[2][3] In 1966 Bronk became the first professor of biochemistry at the University of York, becoming emeritus in 1997.
[4] Bronk married an Englishwoman named Sylvia, with whom he had two sons Richard and Christopher.