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 ...

Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based scholar and songwriter with a knack for political satire, died Saturday, July 26 at 97. But his zany songs live on. Lehrer got his comedic start at Harvard University, ...

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 performing in 1965 and at home during a rare interview in 2000 Ted Streshinsky/Getty Images; Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, mathematician and political ...

Tom Lehrer, the renowned Cold War-era musical satirist whose jaunty and grim show tunes inspired generations, has died. Per Variety, Lehrer was found dead at his Cambridge, MA, home on July 26. He was ...

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who became an influential musical satirist during the 1950s and ’60s, has died at age 97. Friends discovered him deceased at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on Saturday, ...

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 ...

Forgotten silent filmmaker Guy-Blaché takes center stage in Be Natural, while Live in Copenhagen spotlights more than a dozen songs written and performed by '60s singing satirist Lehrer. This is FRESH ...