W. H. Freeman and Company explained

W. H. Freeman and Company
Parent:	Macmillan Publishers
Founded:	1946
Founder:	William H. Freeman
Country:	United States
Publications:	Textbooks
Topics:	Science

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

"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" in San Francisco.^[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/

External links

• • Official W. H. Freeman and Company website (archived 5 February 2009)

Notes and References

1. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . 1938-03-01 . DR. WILLIAM H. FREEMAN; Professor Emeritus of the New York Homeopathic College . 2024-01-31 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
2. News: 1964-09-05 . Deaths . 2024-01-31 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
3. Web site: William Freeman . 2024-01-31 . www.myheritage.com.
4. Book: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811260766_0003 . 10.1142/9789811260766_0003 . W.H. Freeman & Co . Visions of Linus Pauling . 2022 . Tellvik . Dani . 31–57 . 978-981-12-6075-9 .
5. Web site: 2018-07-25 . W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor . 2024-01-31 . PaulingBlog . en.
6. Web site: 2018-07-25 . W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor . 2024-01-31 . PaulingBlog . en.
7. Web site: About W.H. Freeman . W.H. Freeman . https://web.archive.org/web/20090218210803/http://www.whfreeman.com/newcatalog.aspx?page=html%5Cfreemanstory.html. February 18, 2009.
8. Web site: 2018-07-25 . W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor . 2024-01-31 . PaulingBlog . en.
9. Web site: July 1946 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day - Special Collections . 2024-01-31 . scarc.library.oregonstate.edu.
10. Web site: July 1946 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day - Special Collections . 2024-01-31 . scarc.library.oregonstate.edu.
11. Web site: 2018-07-25 . W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor . 2024-01-31 . PaulingBlog . en.
12. Clapperton . Chalmers M. . 1981. Book reviews: Williams, H. and McBirney, A.R. 1979: Volcanology. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper and Company. 397 pp. £19.50 . Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment . en . 5 . 3 . 460–461 . 10.1177/030913338100500318 . 0309-1333.
13. Web site: www.bibliopolis.com . The Origins of Pragmatism by A J. Ayer on Shadyside Books . 2024-01-31 . Shadyside Books . en-US.
14. Book: Ayer, Alfred Jules . The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James . 1968 . Freeman, Cooper . 978-0-87735-501-4 . en.
15. Web site: 2018-08-29 . Freeman, Cooper and Co. . 2024-01-31 . PaulingBlog . en.
16. https://us.macmillan.com/publishers/macmillan-learning/ "Macmillan Learning"