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]
"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]
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]