Back in 1949, before he emerged as the godfather of the American space program, he spilled his fantasies onto the page, in a ...

Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed musical satirist, has been in the limelight recently due to his passing on July 26, 2025, at the ...

Musician and political satirist Tom Lehrer died Saturday, July 26. He was 97. According to NPR, Lehrer died in his Cambridge, ...

Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The ...

The mathematician and satirist died on Saturday, July 26 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to his friend ...

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 ...

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.