Julius Wilbrand
Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (22 August 1839 – 22 June 1906)<ref name="Familienarchiv">Familienarchiv Familie Wilbrand O13, Nr. 139, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.</ref> was a German chemist who discovered trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT.
He was born in Gießen, Germay to Albertine Knapp and Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand, a forensic physician.<ref name="Familienarchiv" /> His brother, Hermann Wilbrand, was an ophthalmologist.
In 1863, Wilbrand discovered TNT while experimenting with new solutions for yellow dye.<ref>Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, Bd. 128, 1863, S. 178-179.</ref><ref>G. Carlton Smith: TNT. Trinitrotoluenes and Mono- and Dinitrotoluenes, Their Manufacture and Properties, New York 1918, S. 17-18.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He obtained trinitrotoluene through the nitration of toluene. The compound's use as an explosive was developed later.
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