| Parent company | Macmillan Publishers |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | William H. Freeman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Publication types | Textbooks |
| Nonfiction topics | Science |
| Official website | www |
W. H. Freeman and Company is animprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division ofMacmillan Publishers. Macmillan publishesmonographs andtextbooks for the sciences under the imprint.
The company, W. H. Freeman and Company Publishing[1] was founded in 1946 byWilliam H. Freeman Jr.,[2] who had been a salesman and editor atMacmillan Publishing.
Freeman later foundedFreeman, Cooper and Company in San Francisco.[3][4][5][6]
Titles published by W. H. Freeman includeJames Watson'sRecombinant DNA (1983), William J. Kaufmann III'sThe Universe (1985), Jon Rogawski'sCalculus (2007), andPeter Atkins’Physical Chemistry (2014).[7]