Periodic table showing the newest chemical elements. In 1959, comedian Tom Lehrer set the periodic table of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern ...

It would perhaps behoove us, from an interest-drawing perspective, to begin this piece upon the death of intellectual satirist Tom Lehrer to note that Daniel Radcliffe is a fan. Granted, that's parody ...

Tom Lehrer, the musician and satirist known for his razor-sharp wit and dark humour, has passed away at the age of 97. A Harvard-trained mathematician, Lehrer rose to fame in the 1950s and 1960s with ...

Tom Lehrer, pianist, songwriter, mathematician, and the man who made black comedy sing, has died at 97. According to Variety, his friends said he was found at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on Saturday ...

In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer — who turns 90 this month — performed what he characteristically called a “completely pointless” scientific song at Harvard University in Cambridge, ...