Neurosurgeons care for two of the most delicate and complex parts of the human body: the brain and the nervous system. The name neurosurgeon is slightly misleading as neurosurgeons do much more than just operate on the brain or spinal cord. They are also nonoperative caretakers of the nervous system and all of its surrounding blood supply.
Honors and awards. 1  1992 Mae C. Jemison Science and Space Museum, Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, Illinois. 2  1992 Mae C. Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan. 3  2001 Mae Jemison School, an elementary public school in Hazel Crest, Illinois.
Mae Jemison is famous because she was the first African American women to go to space.