Long before Bill Nye the Science Guy, How Stuff Works and Mythbusters, there was Mr. Wizard. Don Herbert, who was Mr. Wizard, passed on yesterday at 89. If you are over a certain age, you will ...

Watch Mr. Wizard was an American television program for children that demonstrated the science behind ordinary things. The show's creator and on-air host was Don Herbert. Marcel LaFollette said of the ...

The star of the "Mr. Wizard" science TV programs, Don Herbert, is usually thought of as a kindly old soul who guided kids through the intricacies of math, physics, chemistry and more. But science can ...

Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday of bone cancer in Bell Canyon, Calif. He was 89. “He really taught kids how ...

Don Herbert, TV’s “Mr. Wizard” in the ’50s and ’60s, died Tuesday at the age of 89. While I am old enough to have been a viewer, I was never a “Mr. Wizard” child, but a colleague says: “For people of ...

Don Herbert, known as Mr. Wizard, died Tuesday in suburban Los Angeles. He was 89. His TV show, Watch Mr. Wizard, was produced from 1951 to 1964. He taught millions of kids to think like scientists.

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