ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — "Today, we are learning about chemistry. It involves substances and matter." Fifty children are captivated. Spider-Man could swing through on a web and they'd tell him to buzz ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...