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 ...

The children’s educational series Watch Mr. Wizard — which ended its original NBC run 60 years ago, on June 27, 1965 — introduced countless TV viewers to the wonders of science. And that’s a credit to ...

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 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 another generation of youngsters on ...

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 ...

Don Herbert was "Mr. Wizard," an educator who loved spectacle as much as he loved science. Smithsonian Archives Center, National Museum of American History It's an open argument of who was more famous ...