W. H. Freeman and Company

W. H. Freeman and Company
Parent company	(Who”)
Founded	1946
Founder	William H. Freeman
Country of origin	United States
Publication types	Textbooks
Nonfiction topics	Science
Official website	www.macmillanlearning.com

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

The company was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman. He 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 bought Scientific American in 1986.

References

^ "About W.H. Freeman". W.H. Freeman. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.

External links

Official website
Official W. H. Freeman and Company website (archived)

[1] "About W.H. Freeman". W.H. Freeman. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.

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