The phrase "a former science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a field of study that was once considered a science but is no longer classified as such.
Example: "Alchemy was regarded as a former science before the advent of modern chemistry."
Alternatives: "an obsolete science" or "a past science".
Scientology was founded in 1952 by a former science fiction writer, L Ron . Hubbard
Ron Bonn San Diego, Aug. 15, 2010 The writer is a former science producer for network evening newscasts.
Or Gina Cooper, a former science teacher who organized the convention of liberal bloggers that became Netroots Nation.
"He managed to persuade the heavyweights," Frederic Golden, a former science writer and editor at Time and Discover, said.
"They are absolutely beautiful," said Stanley Teitel, Stuyvesant's principal and a former science teacher, envisioning a research project.
Universities remain, in the words of Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a former science adviser to the cabinet, "insular, hierarchical and male-dominated".
The BSO operations' chief was Mohammed Oudeh, a Palestinian former science teacher known by his nom de guerre Abu Daoud ("Abu" means "father of", and Daoud was his father's middle name given to his only son).
A psychologist, former science journalist at the New York Times and author of the bestselling book "Emotional Intelligence," Goleman appears to have the measure of his readers.
(Dr. Robert C. Baker [1921-2006], a former poultry science and food science professor to give credit where it's due).
Four years ago Dr. Havasy, 40, a zoologist and former science teacher and principal from Port Washington, founded the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, a nonprofit, to encourage science learning and make it relevant.
In much the same way, as a biologist and former science writer and journalist, she aspires to tell people in plain English about science.
