What is Linton Freeman?
[[File:Linton Freeman.jpg|right|200px]] '''Linton Clarke Freeman''' (1927 &ndash; August 17, 2018) was an American [[structuralism (sociology)|structuralist]] [[sociologist]] and editor. He was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. Freeman was 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|access-date=24 January 2018}}</ref> Freeman was the first to create the metric of [[Betweenness centrality]]. He was the founding editor of the journal ''[[Social Networks (journal)|Social Networks]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks|title=Social Networks|publisher=[[Elsevier]]|access-date=24 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788733 | title=Social Networks (journal) | publisher=[[ScienceDirect.com]] | access-date=January 25, 2018}}</ref> Freeman died on August 17, 2018 in [[Irvine, California]] 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]]|access-date=August 26, 2018}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=quiVMg8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Linton C Freeman] - [[Google Scholar Citations]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Freeman, Linton}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:American sociologists]] [[Category:Educators from Chicago]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:Journalists from Chicago]] [[Category:University of California faculty]] {{US-bio-stub}}