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Wang Ming-chen (pinyin: Wáng Míngzhēn, November 18, 1906 – August 28, 2010) was a Chinese theoretical physicist and a professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. As one of the first few Chinese female students studying science abroad, she was best known for her work on stochastic process and Brownian motion with George Uhlenbeck as well as the first female professor of Tsinghua University according to some source. Wang Ming-chen and her cousin He Zehui were sometimes separately credited as "The Chinese Madame Curie".