Obituary: Jimmy O. Fenn 1937–2000

Dr. Jimmy Fenn, Professor Emeritus in Radiation Oncology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, passed away on September 28, 2000 at the age of 62. He died of complications arising from pneumonia. Jimmy was a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine ~AAPM!, the American College of Medical Physics ~ACMP!, and the American College of Radiology ~ACR!. Jimmy’s career in medical physics spanned nearly four decades. Much of that time was spent at the Medical University of South Carolina where he served as the head of radiation oncology physics from the early 1980’s to his recent retirement in 1998. Jimmy received his bachelor’s degree in physics in 1965 from Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee and began his career in medical physics shortly thereafter as a radiation physicist in the Department of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine. During that time he also continued his graduate studies at Emory University, receiving his master’s degree in radiological physics in 1967. He continued his graduate studies interspersed with his medical physics career and in 1980 he received his doctoral degree in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1977, Jimmy was certified in Radiological Physics by the American Board of Radiology ~ABR!, and in 1990 he was certified in Radiation Oncology Physics by the American Board of Medical Physics ~ABMP!. Jimmy’s efforts in supporting board certification for medical physicists