W. H. Freeman and Company
W. H. Freeman and Company is an imprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division of Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan publishes monographs and textbooks for the sciences under the imprint.
Parent company
1946
William H. Freeman
United States
Textbooks
Science
History[edit]
"William Hazen Freeman, Jr. was born in New York state in March 1905. ... his father, William Hazen Freeman,[1][2][3] was a doctor who specialized in gastrointestinal issues.[4] The younger Freeman attended Hamilton College in New York and graduated in 1926, a member of the same class as famed behaviorist B.F. Skinner."[5]
"Freeman and (Verne) Kopplin married in 1946.[6]
"Macmillan’s lackluster interest in Pauling’s text was indeed the spark that led Freeman to create his own publishing house, and it was a gamble that paid off. In 1947, W.H. Freeman & Co. published its first book, General Chemistry,[7] (by Linus Pauling) now regarded to be a classic of the genre."[8]
The company, W. H. Freeman and Company Publishing[9] was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman, Jr.,[10] who had been a salesman and editor at Macmillan Publishing.
"Freeman set up shop on Market Street"[11]
Freeman was acquired by Scientific American Inc. in 1964. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group bought Scientific American in 1986.
William Hazen Freeman, Jr. later founded Freeman, Cooper and Company in San Francisco.[12][13][14][15]
Works[edit]
Titles published by W. H. Freeman include James Watson’s Recombinant DNA (1983), William J. Kaufmann III's The Universe (1985), Jon Rogawski’s Calculus (2007), and Peter Atkins’ Physical Chemistry (2014).[16]