Boris Mamyrin

Boris Aleksandrovich Mamyrin (‹See Tfd›Russian: Борис Александрович Мамырин; 25 May 1919 – 5 March 2007) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, best known for his invention of the electrostatic ion mirror mass spectrometer known as the reflectron.^[1][2][3]

Boris Mamyrin
Born	Boris Aleksandrovich Mamyrin May 25, 1919 Lipetsk, Tambov Governorate, RSFSR
Died	March 5, 2007 (aged 87) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Citizenship	Russian
Alma mater	Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
Known for	Inventor of the Reflectron
Awards	Konstantinov Award (1982) Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry (2000) Russian Society for Mass Spectrometry Gold Medal (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Mass spectrometry
Institutions	Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute

Mamyrin was born in 1919 in Lipetsk, Soviet Russia during Russian Civil War. Both of his parents were medical doctors and his early aim was to follow in their footsteps. However, shortly after he obtained his M.S. degree in physics from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, World War II cut his studies short. He served in the army throughout the war, finally being discharged from military service in 1948. He returned to the Polytechnic Institute and obtained his doctoral degree within a year. He became the head and leading research scientist of the laboratory for mass spectrometry at Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

• Time-of-flight mass spectrometry