I remember those!
Julius Sumner Miller, mad scientist.
Jearl Walker, mad scientist.
CMC fnord!
I very specifically remember that episode, with the bomb calorimeter. It was a giant thing, probably at least a foot tall, round, he opened it up and you could tell it had very thick walls and then he put a little tiny bit of cereal inside it and said the machine would burn it and we’d see how much energy (Calories) it would release.
For a generation of people growing up in UK it has to be Johnny Ball
Johnny Ball. Man, he’s awesome.
Edit: Holy simulpost, Batman! Changed link to different episode.
This many posts and no one has mentioned Sir Patrick “The Sky at Night” Moore? :dubious:
he was an excellent presenter and well known because of the extensive use of the Bell System movies.
it is surprising that he was an English professor.
Julius Sumner Miller was also “The Professor” on “Hilarious House of Frightenstein”, and basically did stragiht-up science experiments for kids. He was probably my ‘science guy’ as a kid growing up in the 1970’s, because Mr. Wizard and the others just weren’t on Canadian TV that I remember.
In Canada we also had David Suzuki, but I’ve always disliked him for some reason. Too smarmy and self-important maybe. The only other ‘science guy’ I can remember on TV at that time was Carl Sagan - loved the original ‘Cosmos’. But mostly Sagan was famous for being a regular on “The Tonight Show”, where he brought skeptical thinking and his love of space to the masses.
Mr. Wizard. Nickelodeon version only, though my mom told me about the original run.
That would explain it. We didn’t have cable either (actually, my parents still don’t.) The closest we got was getting one of those black-market descramblers for over-the-air pay TV (ON-TV and Sportsvision). 
Don Herbert was THE MAN!
The segment I remember is him creating Wind in a fish tank using a candle and ice on both ends.
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I always got a kick out of this guy, too:
[/QUOTE]I loved Jack Horkheimer! Keep looking up!
Americans probably only know him, if at all, as that crazy old guy from Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science” video, but Magnus Pyke was a legend. And his brother invented Pycrete.
I’m part of the *Mr. Wizard *generation.
Assuming Davids Attenborough and Suzuki and carl sagan don’t count as “Science Guys”(no lab coats), it’s have to be The Edison Twins, I’m afraid we didn’t get all these other shows in SA.
I am also part of the Mr. Wizard generation.
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[/QUOTE]That was it, thanks! A heat lamp and not a candle though. Memory’s a funny thing.
One of the Mr Wizard one’s I always get reminded about from time to time is where he was demonstrating the speed of sound. He and his helper stood somewhat far away (far enough that I think he drove a car to the other location). They both had walkie talkies. He shot a starter pistol into the walkie talkie and he started a stop watch when she heard it in the stop watch and stopped it when she heard it ‘ota’.
I was reminded about that when my physics teacher was telling me about people bringing radios to baseball games to listen to the commentators and that they could hear the crack of the baseball bat over their radio before the one the ‘real’ one that was just a few hundred feet away from them. Keeping in mind, the one on the radio traveled through miles upon miles of copper wire and air waves.
ETA, here it is