Linton Freeman

{{Short description|American structuralist sociologist (1927–2018)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Linton Clarke Freeman | honorific_suffix = | image = Linton Freeman.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1927 | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = August 17, 2018 (aged 91) | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = social network | workplaces = Syracuse University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Lehigh University, University of California, Irvine | patrons = | education = Northwestern University (Ph.D. 1956), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (M.A. 1953), Roosevelt University (B.A. 1952) | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = social network, centrality | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|moreno.ss.uci.edu}} | footnotes = }} '''Linton Clarke Freeman''' (1927 – August 17, 2018) was an American structuralist sociologist known for his work in social networks. He was an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sociology.uci.edu/people/emeritus.php|title=Emeritus Faculty - Sociology |publisher=UC Irvine School of Social Sciences|accessdate=24 January 2018}}</ref> Freeman developed the first measure of betweenness centrality. He was the founding editor of the journal ''Social Networks''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks|title=Social Networks|publisher=Elsevier|accessdate=24 January 2018}}</ref> which began publishing in 1979.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788733 | title=Social Networks (journal) | publisher=ScienceDirect.com | accessdate=January 25, 2018}}</ref>

Freeman died on August 17, 2018, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2018/2018-08-23-freeman.php|title=In memoriam: Linton C. Freeman|publisher=University of California, Irvine|accessdate=August 26, 2018}}</ref>

==Book== Freeman, Linton C. 2004. ''The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science.'' Vancouver: Empirical Press.

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==External links== *[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=quiVMg8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Linton C Freeman] - Google Scholar Citations

{{DEFAULTSORT:Freeman, Linton C.}} Category:1927 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Social scientists from Chicago Category:American sociologists Category:University of California, Irvine faculty Category:University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Category:University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty Category:Northwestern University alumni Category:Roosevelt University alumni