Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist who is most
known for his ecological systems theory. He was born in Russia on April 29, 1917 and died in America on September 25, 2005. Bronfenbrenner completed a double major in psychology and music at Cornell in 1938 and a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1942. He worked as a clinical psychologist in the U.S. Army and as a professor at the university of Michigan and at Cornell. He was co-founder of the Head Start program situated in United States that provides education to under privileged children.