W. H. Freeman and Company is an imprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division of

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. Macmillan publishes

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s and

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s for the sciences under the imprint.

History

The company, W. H. Freeman and Company Publishing was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman Jr., who had been a salesman and editor at

Macmillan Publishing Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be on ...

. Freeman later founded ''Freeman, Cooper and Company'' in San Francisco.

Works

Titles published by W. H. Freeman include

James Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biology, molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper in ''Nature (journal), Nature'' proposing the Nucleic acid ...

's ''Recombinant DNA'' (1983), William J. Kaufmann III's ''The Universe'' (1985), Jon Rogawski's ''Calculus'' (2007), and

Peter Atkins Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including ''Physical Chemistry'', ''Ino ...

’ ''Physical Chemistry'' (2014)."Macmillan Learning"
Macmillan Publishers. Accessed September 1, 2022.

References

External links

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Official W. H. Freeman and Company website
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