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
