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 | Macmillan Publishers |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | William H. Freeman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Publication types | Textbooks |
| Nonfiction topics | Science |
| Official website | www |
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][15]
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 Atkins’ Physical Chemistry (2014).[16]
Further reading
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/w-h-freeman-the-man-his-company-and-his-star-editor/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/roger-hayward-at-freeman-co/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/college-chemistry/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/the-golden-years-freeman-and-co-in-the-1950s/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/trouble-at-freeman-and-co/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/freeman-cooper-and-co/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/life-after-bill-freeman/
- https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/pauling-and-freeman-the-end-of-the-run/
References
External links
- Official website
- Official W. H. Freeman and Company website (archived 5 February 2009)