W. H. Freeman and Company is an imprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division of

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. Macmillan publishes monographs and

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s for the sciences under the imprint.

History

The company was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman, who had been a salesman and editor at

Macmillan Publishing Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publ ...

. Freeman's first published book was ''General Chemistry'', by

Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling (; February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific top ...

. Freeman was acquired by Scientific American Inc. in 1964.

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Holtzbrinck Publishing Group () is a privately held German company based in Stuttgart which owns publishing companies worldwide. Through Macmillan Publishers, it is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies. In 2015, it m ...

bought ''Scientific American'' in 1986.

Works

Titles published by W. H. Freeman include

James Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and ...

’s ''Recombinant DNA'' (1983), William J. Kaufmann III's ''The Universe'' (1985), Jon Rogawski’s ''Calculus'' (2007), and

Peter Atkins Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including ''Physical Chemistry'', ''Ino ...

’ ''Physical Chemistry'' (2014)."Macmillan Learning"
Macmillan Publishers. Accessed September 1, 2022.

References

External links

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Official W. H. Freeman and Company website (archived)
{{Authority control * Book publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1946 1946 establishments in the United States Holtzbrinck Publishing Group 1964 mergers and acquisitions