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, 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 ...
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 ...
Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer died on Saturday at the age of 97. Lehrer was famously a Harvard man — admitted at age 15 in 1943 — and began to write and sing songs while an undergraduate there. He ...