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|name = Don Herbert |image = Don Herbert 1971.JPG |caption = Herbert in 1971 |spouse = Maraleita Dutton (1939–?); Norma Kasell (1972–death)[1] |birth_name = Donald Herbert Kemske |birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|7|10}} |birth_place = Waconia, Minnesota, U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|6|12|1917|7|10}} |death_place = Bell Canyon, California, U.S. |known_for=Mr. Wizard television programs }}Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske and better known as Mr. Wizard, July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007) was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72) and Mr. Wizard's World (1983–90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children.[2][3][4] It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the popularity and longevity of "the friendly, neighborly scientist".[4]{{rp|173}} In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "Herbert's techniques and performances helped create the United States' first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world."[6] Herbert is credited with turning "a generation of youth" in the 1950s and early 1960s onto "the promise and perils of science".[5] Early lifeBorn in Waconia, Minnesota, Herbert was a general science and English major at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse (then called La Crosse State Teachers College) who was interested in drama. His career as an actor was interrupted by World War II when he enlisted in the United States Army as a Private. Herbert later joined the United States Army Air Forces, took pilot training, and became a B-24 bomber pilot who flew 56 combat missions from Italy with the 767th Bomb Squadron, 461st Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force. When Herbert was discharged in 1945 he was a Captain and had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. Watch Mr. WizardAfter the war Herbert worked at a radio station in Chicago where he acted in children's programs such as the documentary health series It's Your Life (1949). It was during this time that Herbert formulated the idea of Mr. Wizard and a general science experiments show that used the new medium of television. Herbert's idea was accepted by Chicago NBC station WNBQ and the series Watch Mr. Wizard premiered on March 3, 1951. The weekly half-hour live television show, co-produced by Jules Power,[6] featured Herbert as Mr. Wizard and either a boy or a girl with whom Herbert performed interesting science experiments.[7] The experiments, many of which seemed impossible at first glance, were usually simple enough to be re-created by viewers. The show was very successful with 547 live episodes created before it was canceled in 1965. The program won a Peabody Award in 1953.[8] Marcel LaFollette notes that, "At its peak, Watch Mr. Wizard drew about eight hundred thousand viewers per episode, but it had an even wider impact. By 1956 over five thousand "Mr. Wizard Science Clubs" had been established, with total membership over a hundred thousand. Teachers incorporated program themes into their classes, and "Mr. Wizard" science kits, books, and other product tie-ins filled the holiday gift lists of countless children."[11] The show was briefly revived in the 1971–1972 season as Mr. Wizard, produced in Canada by CJOH-TV in Ottawa; this series was seen on NBC as well as CBC Television in Canada. Cory Buxton and Eugene Provenzo place Mr. Wizard in a 19th-century tradition of "hands-on kitchen science" associated with Michael Faraday's popular science lectures and Arthur Good's collection of experiments for children, La Science Amusante (1893). In turn, LaFollette has written on the legacy of Herbert and other early innovators of science television, "Production approaches that are now standard practice on NOVA and the Discovery Channel derive, in fact, from experimentation by television pioneers like Lynn Poole and Don Herbert and such programs as Adventure, Zoo Parade, Science in Action, and the Bell Telephone System’s science specials. These early efforts were also influenced by television’s love of the dramatic, refined during its first decade and continuing to shape news and public affairs programming, as well as fiction and fantasy, today."[9] Subsequent careerIn the mid-1950s, Herbert also appeared on the General Electric Theater as the "General Electric Progress Reporter" and would introduce spokesman Ronald Reagan and his family to the viewing audience. In some episodes, he would appear alongside Reagan and demonstrate to the audience how General Electric was helping people to, "Live better electrically." After Watch Mr. Wizard was cancelled in 1965, Herbert produced eight films in a series titled Experiment: The Story of a Scientific Search; these aired on public television in 1966. In the same year, Herbert produced the Science 20 series, which were 20-minute films of experiments that were designed for classroom use; a student would record and analyze data based on the film. In 1977, he began producing a series of How About episodes about scientific topics. These were 90-second films that could be used in news programs; by 1986, he produced 536 films.[10] In 1969, Herbert opened a Mr. Wizard Science Center in Wellesley, Massachusetts;[11] the center no longer exists. Mr. Wizard's WorldIn 1983, Herbert developed Mr. Wizard's World, a faster-paced version of his show that aired three times per week on the cable channel Nickelodeon. The show ran until 1990 and reruns were shown until 2000. In 1994, Herbert developed another new series of 15-minute spots called Teacher to Teacher with Mr. Wizard. The spots highlighted individual elementary science teachers and their projects. The series was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and was shown on Nickelodeon. In 1982, Herbert was a guest on the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman.[12] In 1993 children's science show Beakman's World paid homage to Herbert by naming its two penguin puppet characters "Don" and "Herb" after him. DeathHerbert died June 12, 2007, of multiple myeloma at his home in Bell Canyon, California.[8] In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "If any of you reading now have been surprised and happy to learn a few things about science watching "Bill Nye the Science Guy," keep in mind, it all started with Don Herbert."[13] Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, principals of the television program MythBusters (2002–2016), have been described as being "reverent" of Herbert's work as Mr. Wizard.[14] Five months after Herbert died, MythBusters aired a two-hour episode entitled "Special Super-sized Myths" "Dedicated to Mr. Wizard".[15] In popular culture
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/726/000031633/|title=Don Herbert}} [21]2. ^{{cite book |last=Gilkey |first=George R. |title=A History of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, 1909-1979 |year=1981 |page=229 |publisher=The University of Wisconsin–La Crosse Foundation |url=http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/digital/uwl/Gilkey/text.htm |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818192808/http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/digital/uwl/Gilkey/text.htm |archivedate=2010-08-18 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite news |last=Rindfleisch |first=Terry |url=http://lacrossetribune.com/news/a-life-remembered-mr-wizard-let-kids-experience-science/article_c8606325-2392-5033-9d0c-2e65c84aa333.html |title=A life remembered: 'Mr. Wizard' let kids experience science |work=La Crosse Tribune |date=June 14, 2007}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=LaFollette|first1=Marcel Chotkowski|title=Science on American television : a history|date=2013|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=177|location=Chicago, Ill.|isbn=978-0-226-92199-0}} 5. ^{{cite journal|last1=Halpern|first1=Paul|title=On the Air|journal=Distillations|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation | date=2015|volume=1|issue=2|page=44|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/on-the-air|accessdate=23 March 2018}} 6. ^{{cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |title=Jules Power, 87, a producer of 'Mr. Wizard' on TV |work=The New York Times |date=15 October 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/arts/television/15power.html}} 7. ^1 {{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-herbert13jun13,0,4804035,full.story |title=Don Herbert, 89; TV's Mr. Wizard Taught Science |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 13, 2007}} 8. ^1 2 {{cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/arts/13herbert.html |title=Don Herbert, 'Mr. Wizard' to Science Buffs, Dies at 89 |work=The New York Times |date=June 13, 2007}} 9. ^{{cite journal |title=A Survey of Science Content in U.S. Television Broadcasting, 1940s through 1950s: The Exploratory Years |first=Marcel C. |last=LaFollette |journal=Science Communication |date=September 2002 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=34–71 |doi=10.1177/107554700202400103 |url=http://scx.sagepub.com/content/24/1/34.abstract |subscription=yes}} 10. ^{{cite web |title=Mr. Wizard's Biographical Timeline |year=2004 |publisher=Mr. Wizard Studios |url=http://mrwizardstudios.com/bioandtimeline.htm |accessdate=2012-06-08}} 11. ^{{cite web |title=John J. Sullivan, Jr., 80 |url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/walpole/news/obituaries/x911400031/John-J-Sullivan-Jr-80#axzz1xH253xrb |work=Wicked Local Walpole |accessdate=2012-06-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911192003/http://www.wickedlocal.com/walpole/news/obituaries/x911400031/John-J-Sullivan-Jr-80#axzz1xH253xrb |archivedate=2011-09-11 |df= }} 12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/20/8632603/david-letterman-first-late-night|title=The Verge}} 13. ^1 {{cite news |title=Teaching science with a big `poof!' |last=Nye |first=Bill |work=Los Angeles Times |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/15/entertainment/et-wizard15 |date=June 15, 2007}} 14. ^{{cite news |title=Show finds, shatters the mything links |last=Bentley |first=Rick |work=The Columbus Dispatch |date=April 23, 2008 |url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2008/04/23/2_TV_MYTHBUSTERS.ART_ART_04-23-08_D4_NEA0I92.html}} 15. ^{{cite episode |title=Special Super-sized Myths |series=MythBusters |season=5 |number=21 |date=November 14, 2007}} 16. ^{{cite web|title=George Foster Peabody Award Winners |url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/PeabodyWinnersBook.pdf |publisher=University of Georgia |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726000000/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/PeabodyWinnersBook.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-26 |df= }} 17. ^{{cite web |title=Robert A. Millikan Medal |url=http://www.aapt.org/Programs/awards/millikan.cfm |accessdate=2012-06-06 |publisher=American Association of Physics Teachers}} 18. ^{{cite web |title=James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public |url=http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/funding/awards/national/bytopic/CTP_004537 |accessdate=2012-06-06 |publisher=American Chemical Society |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120715185359/http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/funding/awards/national/bytopic/CTP_004537 |archivedate=2012-07-15 |df= }} 19. ^{{cite journal |work=Congressional Record |volume=158 |issue=12 |date=June 18–26, 2007 |isbn=9780160871436 |title=H. Res. 485 |quote=Resolved. That the House of Representatives (1) expresses its appreciation for the profound public service and educational contributions of Don Jeffry Herbert, (2) recognizes the profound public impact of higher educational institutions that train teachers, (3) encourages students to honor the heritage of Don Herbert by exploring our world through science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields; and, (4) extends its condolences to the family of Don Herbert and thanks them for their strong familial support of him. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Ju1FH5oagAC&pg=PR17}} 20. ^{{cite journal |last=Silberman |first=Steve |authorlink=Steve Silberman |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry_pr.html |title=Don't Try This at Home |work=Wired |volume=14 |issue=6 |date=June 2006}} 21. ^1 {{cite book |last=LaFollette |first=Marcel Chotkowski |title=Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2008 |pages=227–228 |isbn=9780226467597 |oclc=183392557 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZSy5Qhvqt0C&pg=PA227}} }} External links{{Portal|Biography}}{{wikinews|Television's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89}}
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