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. ==See also==