Kunioki Mima (三間 圀興, Mima Kunioki, 17 August 1945 – 5 January 2025) was a Japanese plasma physicist.
He is known for his contributions to the theory of turbulent transport in plasmas,[1][2][3] and in particular the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation in 1977,[4] which won him the 2011 Hannes Alfvén Prize.
[5] Mima studied physics at Kyoto University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a PhD in 1973.
[6] He was a co-recipient of the 1993 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research[9] and won the 2007 Edward Teller Award.
[10] He was jointly awarded the 2011 Hannes Alfvén Prize (with Akira Hasegawa and Patrick H. Diamond) for "laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas".