The phrase "a former chemist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who previously worked as a chemist but no longer does so.
Example: "After years in the pharmaceutical industry, she decided to pursue a career in teaching as a former chemist."
Alternatives: "an ex-chemist" or "a past chemist".
A former chemist and chemical company owner, Goodman complains that people call Oxitec's OX513A patented insects "franken-skeeters".
A former chemist, Ms. Nelson came up with the concept of stocking desert springs with ocean fish in the 1980s.
As a former chemist and client director at the U.C.L.A Olympic drug-testing lab, he should certainly know better.
In the government's opening statement, Matthew Parrella, an assistant United States attorney, contended that Thomas received the designer steroid THG from Patrick Arnold, a former chemist for Balco.
It is an independent agency formed by Paul Scott, a former chemist and client director at the U.C.L.A. Olympic drug-testing lab, with people dedicated to antidoping.
Crucially, Farman had the support of Margaret Thatcher, who was a former chemist and who championed his work and the Montreal protocol.
A pro-death-penalty Republican, this avuncular former chemist drew international attention when he declared a moratorium on executions in his state because he thought the process "fraught with error".
you catalyse a reaction," says Gerold's assistant, former chemist Bernd Reichert.
Dr. Boisselier, a former research chemist in France, teaches chemistry at Hamilton College in upstate New York.
Instead of a straightforward pixel stash, DreamWorks hired a former quantum chemist and a former specialist in fluid dynamics to create a series of mathematical instructions about how different parts of the image should affect their neighbors once motion commences.
The Baltimore County police are reviewing 480 cases worked on by a former department chemist who testified at a 1983 rape trial against a defendant who was later exonerated.
