Zhou Yongchang

Zhou Yongchang (Chinese: 周永昌; 1922–2017) was a Chinese physician and a pioneering sonographer in mainland China. Zhou was born in November, 1922 in Shanghai. Graduating from Tong De Medical College, he became a urologist. In the late 1950s, Zhou and his colleagues tried to apply industrial ultrasonic testing for medical diagnosis.^[1] In 1988, together with four other people, he was presented with the "History of Medical Ultrasound Pioneer Award" by the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB).^[2] He is the maternal grandfather of singer Jackson Wang.

Zhou died on 24 October 2017.^[3]