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Birth name: Wilbur Lincoln Scoville

Also known as: Wilbur L. Scoville

Place of birth:

Bridgeport Show on Google Maps

Birth date:

1865-01-22 • Birth Sign: Aquarius

Citizenship:

United States

Death date:

1942-03-10 (77 years old)

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Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) 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.

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