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In 1959, jack of all trades, Tom Lehrer wrote and sang this song naming all of the elements in front of a Harvard audience. You\'ve got to imagine the guys recording this song: early twenties, with seven-eights inch crewcut hair, plastic rimed glasses, sharp white shirts and loosened black ties. They gathered around a high tech tape recorder and forever preserved this song:


Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly; August 1999; The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements - 99.08; Volume 284, No. 2; page 43.