Jian-Min Yuan (born 1944) is a Taiwanese physicist.
Yuan studied chemistry at National Taiwan University, completing a bachelor's degree in 1966, followed by a master's degree in 1968. He then obtained a doctorate in chemical physics at the University of Chicago in 1973.[1] Yuan began teaching at Drexel University in 1978, as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1984, and appointed a full professor in 1991.[2] Yuan was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998, "[f]or the application of nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory to the understanding of atomic and molecular processes, particularly laser-induced molecular dissociation and ionization."[3]