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Each week on “Watch Mr. Wizard,” Don Herbert used household objects to conduct an easily replicated experiment that ...

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 ...

Don Herbert inspired many baby boomers as children and sparked an interest in science through his long-running "Mr. Wizard" television show in the 1950s and '60s. But "Mr. Wizard" had his start in La ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES – Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban ...

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for a later generation of ...

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 ...