The American Jewish singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died July 26 at age 97, drew on Yiddishkeit in his sardonic ditties, ...

To nail the presentation, NASA brought von Braun, its most celebrated engineer, to do the talking. After all, they were ...

Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very ...

Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of ...

Tom Lehrer, the American satirical songwriter and mathematician whose darkly comic songs skewered politics, culture, and ...

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

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 ...

For Gundbert Scherf — the co-founder of Germany’s Helsing, Europe’s most valuable defence start-up — Russia’s invasion of ...