the man on the clapham omnibus

The man on the Clapham omnibus is a term used in English Law to signify an educated and intelligent but non-specialist person. The term derives from a quotation of a phrase of Lord Justice Bowen (who was was counsel in the Tichborne Case) in the case of McQuire v. Western Morning News 1903 2 KB 100. Friedrich Kekul (the organic chemist who is best known for imagining the ring structure of benzene) had a dream of 'dancing atoms' on an omnibus in Clapham.

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