Professor Chongfu Ying

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Professor Chongfu Ying – retired Professor in the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences passed away in China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing on 30th June 2011. Professor Ying had been a renowned scientist and professor of physics, founder and pioneer of physical acoustics and ultrasonics in China, the Former Director-General of the Acoustical Society of China, one of the founders of Institute of Acoustics, senior academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was educated in physics and graduated from Physics Department of Huazhong University in 1940 and received his master degree from Physics Department of Tsinghua University in 1944. In 1952 he received his Ph.D. degree in Brown University, USA. In 1956 he returned to China and founded the first ultrasonic laboratory in China. He is one of the founders of ultrasonics in China. His early papers on ultrasonic scattering in solid materials (see the Fig. below), on acousto-optic interaction including Bragg diffraction on surface waves and other papers have become the foundation for the later development of ultrasonics.