Boris Aleksandrovich Mamyrin

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name = Boris Aleksandrovich Mamyrin
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birth_date = 1919
birth_place = Lipetsk, Russia
death_date = March 5, 2007
death_place = St. Petersburg, Russia
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citizenship = Russian
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field = Mass spectrometry
work_institutions = Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute
alma_mater = Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
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known_for = Inventor of the Reflectron
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prizes = Konstantinov Award (1982)
Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry (2000)
Russian Society for Mass Spectrometry Gold Medal (2005)
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Boris Aleksandrovich Mamyrin was a Russian scientist best known for his invention of the electrostatic ion mirror mass spectrometer known as the reflectron. [* Mamyrin, B. A.; Karataev, V. I.; Shmikk, D. V.; Zagulin, V. A. The mass-reflectron, a new nonmagnetic time-of-flight mass spectrometer with high resolution "Sov. Phys. JETP", 1973, "37", 45.] [ cite journal|title=Time-of-flight mass spectrometry (concepts, achievements, and prospects)|journal=International Journal of Mass Spectrometry |date=2001-03-22|first=Boris|last=Mamyrin|coauthors=|volume=206|issue=3|pages=251–266|doi= 10.1016/S1387-3806(00)00392-4|url=|format=|accessdate=2008-03-07 ] [ cite journal|title=Obituary: Boris Alexandrovich Mamyrin: 1919-2007|journal=Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry|date=2007|first=|last=|coauthors=|volume=21|issue=10|pages=1691|doi=10.1002/rcm.3012|format=|accessdate=2008-03-07 ]

Biography

Mamyrin was born in 1919 in Lipetsk, Russia. 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 separating in 1948. He returned to the Polytechnic Institute and obtained his doctoral degree within a year. He was the head and leading research scientist of the laboratory of mass spectrometry at the Loffe 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.

ee also

*Time-of-flight mass spectrometry

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