W.H._Freeman

W. H. Freeman and Company

W. H. Freeman and Company

Publishing imprint of Macmillan Higher Education

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.

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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"[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

References

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    TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (1938-03-01). "DR. WILLIAM H. FREEMAN; Professor Emeritus of the New York Homeopathic College". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "Deaths". The New York Times. 1964-09-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "William Freeman". www.myheritage.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    Tellvik, Dani (2022). "W.H. Freeman & Co". Visions of Linus Pauling. pp. 31–57. doi:10.1142/9789811260766_0003. ISBN 978-981-12-6075-9.
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    "W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor". PaulingBlog. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor". PaulingBlog. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "About W.H. Freeman". W.H. Freeman. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.
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    "W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor". PaulingBlog. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "July 1946 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day - Special Collections". scarc.library.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "July 1946 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day - Special Collections". scarc.library.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    "W.H. Freeman: The Man, His Company, and His Star Editor". PaulingBlog. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    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. 5 (3): 460–461. doi:10.1177/030913338100500318. ISSN 0309-1333.
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    www.bibliopolis.com. "The Origins of Pragmatism by A J. Ayer on Shadyside Books". Shadyside Books. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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    Ayer, Alfred Jules (1968). The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James. Freeman, Cooper. ISBN 978-0-87735-501-4.
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    "Freeman, Cooper and Co". PaulingBlog. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  16. [16]
    "Macmillan Learning", Macmillan Publishers. Accessed September 1, 2022.
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