Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Lehrer's cheery musical trip through the periodic ...

Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic ‘60s TV news show “That Was the Week That Was,” has ...

(Reuters) -Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, ...

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, a musical satirist and mathematical genius, passed away at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on July 26, 2025, at age 97, leaving behind a legacy of razor-sharp wit and academic ...

Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War ...

The recent death of Tom Lehrer, who died Saturday at 97, brought back fond memories of my years as a university and medical student in Boston during the 1960s (“Math whiz found fame as a musical ...