Aldo Pontremoli Scientist

Aldo Pontremoli was an Italian physicist who held a chair of theoretical physics at the University of Milan from 1926 and who founded and directed the Institute of Advanced Physics at the University of Milan from 1924 until his disappearance and presumed death in May 1928. Pontremoli was one of the six men who disappeared with the airborne envelope of the airship Italia after it had crashed on the Arctic ice on 25 May 1928.

Personal facts

Birth date	January 19, 1896
Birth place	Italy , Milan
Citizenship	Italy
Date of death	May 25, 1928
Place of death	Norway , Svalbard , Nordaustlandet
Residence	Milan
Education	Sapienza University of Rome