W. H. Freeman and Company

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W. H. Freeman and Company
Parent company Macmillan Publishers
Founded1946
FounderWilliam H. Freeman
Country of originUnited States
Publication typesTextbooks
Nonfiction topicsScience
Official website www.macmillanlearning.com

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.

Contents

History

"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]

Works

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 AtkinsPhysical Chemistry (2014). [15]

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