PSYCHOLOGIST

Urie Bronfenbrenner

1917 - 2005

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Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917, Moscow – September 25, 2005) was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development. This framework, broadly referred to as 'ecological systems theory', was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist, articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development and later writings. He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Urie Bronfenbrenner has received more than 817,069 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Urie Bronfenbrenner is the 125th most popular psychologist (down from 100th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from Russia (down from 494th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Urie Bronfenbrenner ranks 125 out of 235. Before him are Thomas Gordon, Henry Murray, Carol Gilligan, Ulric Neisser, Robert Plutchik, and Otto F. Kernberg. After him are Serge Moscovici, Ovide Decroly, Frans de Waal, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Amos Tversky, and George Kelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Urie Bronfenbrenner ranks 99. Before him are Atle Selberg, Harold Garfinkel, Augusto Roa Bastos, Buddy Rich, Charlotte Salomon, and Jânio Quadros. After him are Irving Penn, Vasily Petrov, Erich Rudorffer, Luis Carniglia, John Connally, and Sameera Moussa. Among people deceased in 2005, Urie Bronfenbrenner ranks 80. Before him are Will Eisner, Zhang Chunqiao, Vincent Schiavelli, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cicely Saunders, and Annette Stroyberg. After him are Álvaro Cunhal, Andre Gunder Frank, Alberto Lattuada, Alexander Yakovlev, Ed McBain, and Amrita Pritam.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Urie Bronfenbrenner ranks 665 out of 3,761. Before him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Sergey Surovikin (1966), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), and Zinaida Gippius (1869). After him are Yuriy Yekhanurov (1948), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Inna Churikova (1943), Vasily Petrov (1917), and Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Russia

Among psychologists born in Russia, Urie Bronfenbrenner ranks 6. Before him are Sabina Spielrein (1885), Alexander Luria (1902), Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), and Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903). After him are Endel Tulving (1927), Victor Skumin (1948), and Natalia Bekhtereva (1924).

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