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 ...

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 ...

Don Herbert, known as "Mr. Wizard" on television to millions of children (and future scientists and engineers) in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s, died Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at the age of 89 years.

Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske and better known as Mr. Wizard) was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72) and Mr. Wizard's World (1983–90), which were ...