Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian American

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Russian Americans are primarily Americans who traces their ancestry to Russia. The definition can be applied to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to settlers of 19th century Russian settlements in northwestern America which includes today's California, Alaska and...

 psychologist

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, known for developing his Ecological Systems Theory

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, and as a co-founder of the Head Start program in the United States

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 for disadvantaged pre-school children.
Urie Bronfenbrenner was born to Russia

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n Jews, Dr. Alexander Bronfenbrenner and Eugenie Kamenetski Bronfenbrenner, in Moscow

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, Russia

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. When he was 6, the family moved from the USSR to the United States.

Bronfenbrenner attended Cornell University

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 on a scholarship, completing a double major in psychology

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 and music

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 in 1938.