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.
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 |
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.
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]