Wilbur Scoville

Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency, "spiciness" or "capsaicin concentration" of various chili peppers.

Occupation

pharmacist, pharmacologist, chemist

Citizenship

United States

Born

January 22, 1865

Died

March 10, 1942