Linton Freeman

Linton Clarke Freeman, who lived from 1927 until 17 August 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. Freeman developed the first measure of betweenness centrality, and he was the founding editor of the journal Social Networks, which began publishing in 1979. In 2004 he published The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science with Empirical Press of Vancouver. He died at the age of 91.