Min Naiben (simplified Chinese: 闵乃本; traditional Chinese: 閔乃本; pinyin: Mǐn Nǎiběn; 9 August 1935 – 16 September 2018), also known as Nai-Ben Ming,[1] was a Chinese materials scientist, physicist, and politician.

Min was born in Rugao, Jiangsu, on August 9, 1935.

After graduating from Shanghai Advanced Mechanical Vocational School (now University of Shanghai for Science and Technology) in 1954, he studied and then taught at Nanjing University.

In 1982 he was hired as an associate visiting professor at the University of Utah.

In 1986, Min was appointed as the group leader of Physics Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a position in which he remained until 1992.