"scientific circle" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a group of scientists that collaborate on a particular research topic or project, or a network of connections or contacts within the broader scientific community. For example: "The members of the scientific circle collaborated on a project to explore the effects of global warming on the Arctic ecosystem."
In "Properties of Light," though, Ms. Goldstein strikes both deep and hard at the question by carefully circumscribing the lover's triangle within a crisply drawn scientific circle.
The Alaska governor Sarah Palin, in the Washington Post on 9 December, attacked the emailers as a "highly politicised scientific circle" who "manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures".
The Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, in the Washington Post on 9 December, attacked the emailers as a "highly politicised scientific circle" who "manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures".
"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference.
Try to find ways to escape your little scientific circle and engage with some of those other smart people.
"Quantum-gate," as this incident has become known, exposes a highly-politicized scientific circle at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERNN) -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts to foist a bizarre worldview on the public that reflects a socialistic view of the behavior of subatomic particles and cats and threatens lead us down a slippery slope toward fascism.
The work aroused deep skepticism in medical and scientific circles.
In scientific circles, worries about D.A.I. are widespread.
That, she pointed out, is faint praise in scientific circles.
Warming greater than that was rarely discussed outside scientific circles.
The report has provoked consternation in scientific circles for months.
