Don Herbert, who explained science to millions of young viewers on the television show “Mr. Wizard” died Tuesday at the age of 89. Herbert died at his home in Bell Canyon after a long battle with multiple myeloma, said Tom Nikosey, Herbert’s son-in-law.

Herbert used basic experiments to teach scientific principles to his TV audience via an in-studio guest boy or girl who assisted in the experiments.

“I was a grade school kid in the ’50s and watched ‘Mr. Wizard’ Saturday mornings and was just glued to the television,” said Nikosey, president of Mr. Wizard Studios, which sells Herbert’s science books and TV shows on DVD.

He will be sorely missed.

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