John Chynoweth Burnham (July 14, 1929 – May 12, 2017) was an American historian who was a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1963 to 2002. He was an expert on the

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, medicine, psychology, and psychiatry. He served as president of the

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from 1990 to 1992, and as editor-in-chief of the '' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences'' from 1997 to 2000. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the

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. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 26 of the American Psychological Association.

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