Isidor

or Is·i·dore

[ iz-i-dawr, -dohr ]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

In the 1930s, physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, who would go on to the Nobel Prize in Physics, did pioneering work on microwaves that led to the development of airborne radar systems.

From Science Daily

They include his brother Frank Oppenheimer, Haakon Chevalier, Hans Bethe, Isidor Rabi and more, reflecting on Oppenheimer and what they created at Los Alamos.

From Seattle Times

In 1986, he married Wendy Weil, a pilot herself and a great-great-granddaughter of the retail magnate Isidor Straus, who was a co-owner of Macy’s, and his wife, Ida, both of whom died on the Titanic in 1912..

From New York Times

Isidor and Ida Straus have become known for a Titanic story about reportedly choosing to go down together on the sinking ship, arm in arm.

From Seattle Times

Isidor Straus’s body was found at sea several weeks after the disaster, according to New York Times archives.

From Seattle Times