Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (died 1942)

Wilbur Scoville

American pharmacist

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