Jemison says the survey also finds children are interested in science at an early age.

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This year,Jemison says, it polled 1,200 women and minority chemists and chemical engineers.

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Forty percent said they were discouraged from pursuing their chosen career, typically in college and often by their professors, an experience Jemison remembers from her undergraduate days.

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Ms Battle's lawyer has not been available for comment since Ms Jemison's claim was accepted.

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In the interest of expanding the human experience to interstellar travel, Jemison's organization will also establish The Way a scientific research institute that will embrace speculative, long-term science and technology initiatives.

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Ms Jemison, who has a 12-year-old daughter, said she became angry at Ms Battle's assertion that she had bought and dropped the winning ticket, and so had decided to claim the prize immediately.

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