Julius Wilbrand

Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (22 August 1839 – 22 June 1906)^[1] was a German chemist. Born in Gießen to Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand and Albertine Knapp,^[1] he discovered trinitrotoluene in 1863,^[2][3] but the compound's use as an explosive was not developed until later. Wilbrand obtained trinitrotoluene or TNT by the nitration of toluene.

References

1. Familienarchiv Familie Wilbrand O13, Nr. 139, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
2. Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, Bd. 128, 1863, S. 178-179.
3. G. Carlton Smith: TNT. Trinitrotoluenes and Mono- and Dinitrotoluenes, Their Manufacture and Properties, New York 1918, S. 17-18.