W. H. Freeman and Company
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Parent company | Macmillan Publishers |
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Founded | 1946 |
Founder | William H. Freeman |
Country of origin | United States |
Publication types | Textbooks |
Nonfiction topics | Science |
Official website | www |
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.
History[edit]
The company was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman, who had been a salesman and editor at Macmillan Publishing. Freeman's first published book was General Chemistry, by Linus Pauling.[1] Freeman was acquired by Scientific American Inc. in 1964. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group bought Scientific American in 1986.
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).[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "About W.H. Freeman". W.H. Freeman. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.
- ^ "Macmillan Learning", Macmillan Publishers. Accessed September 1, 2022.