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 ...

Don Herbert, better known to generations of TV viewers as Mr. Wizard, died yesterday at the age of 89. The cause was multiple myeloma. From the 1950s through to the 80s, Herbert brought science to the ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

At the very same time during the 1950s that some young women wondered why they should study science when all they wanted to do was get married, and magazines aimed at teen girls and women did their ...

Long before Ben Heck brought his brand of science to Internet television, Don Herbert (1917-2007) as Mr. Wizard brought general science experiments to broadcast television and later to cable. Aired on ...

Growing up I watched a series called “Watch Mr. Wizard” on television. The kids show ran on NBC from 1951 to 1965 and featured Don Herbert. He conducted science experiments on the air that we could do ...

Don Herbert was known to his fans as Mr. Wizard, star of the Watch Mr. Wizard show. Long before Mythbusters, Herbert made common household items seem magical every Saturday at noon on NBC, from 1951 ...