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'Mr. Wizard' dies at 89

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June 13, 2007 8:04 am

By Sheila Lennon

Don Herbert in 1951

Mr. Wizard has died at 89. Beginning in the '50s, live from Chicago, Don Herbert brought a boy or girl, sometimes several, into the studio to help him do science experiments that turned colors or popped, made lightning or melted something. Magic indeed.

I always wished he were my teacher.

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