How does one become a former scientist?
That's easy these days, just go into Biotech
He must have intercoursed up.
“How does one become a former scientist?”
Retires, and within a few short years obsolescence creeps in and leaves them with the basic science, but the techological advancements places them behind the curve.
You die. Science often advances one dead scientist at a time. A fellow gets so much credibility that the prevailing wisdom can't change until that towering mind crooks . Mendeleev predicted elements and properties with his periodic table of the elements . This gave him enormous prestige. He was ,however , dead wrong about radioactivity. He simply refused to accept elements changing from one to another. His stubborn ways held science back until he was dead and could no longer torpedo anybody who disagreed.