About Naiben Ming’s work
From January to March 1993, Naiben Ming held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. At the time, Ming was based at Nanjing University.
Biography
Min Naiben graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing University in 1959 and appointed as the Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1993. He had served as the Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, Chairman of the Chinese Crystallographic Society, and Member of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His research interests include crystal growth, nonlinear optical materials, and optical superlattices. In 2006, he won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. In 2013, the asteroid No. 199953 was named Minaiben. He died in Nanjing in 2018.