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

Macmillan Publishers 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 ...

. 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 publi ...

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

Scientific American Inc ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...

. 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 merged ...

bought ''Scientific American'' in 1986.

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 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