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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An experiment began on March 3, 1951, in the studios of what is today NBC-5 in Chicago. The question it sought to answer was: Could television use ...

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 ...

Before the sum totality of human knowledge was available in the palm of your hand, and subsequently ignored for the latest cat video, scientists took to television to demonstrate kid-friendly ...

In his groundbreaking TV series from the 1950s and 60s Peabody Award winner Don Herbert better known as Mr Wizard introduces the preteen set to the wonders of science Demonstrating inventive ...

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, better known as Mr. Wizard the beloved TV science teacher, died today at 89 after a long struggle with multiple myeloma. Tomorrow, check Wired News for a Q&A with Mr. Wizard, conducted ...

Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. Herbert was 89. By The Associated Press Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr ...

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 ...

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