Google celebrates birthday of Wilbur Scoville [who created the famous scoville test ] with a animated Doodle

January | Friday | 22, 2016 :: Google celebrates birthday of Wilbur Scoville [who created the famous scoville test ] with a animated Doodle

Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) 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 piquancy, or “hotness”, of various chilli peppers.

Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He married Cora B. Upham on September 1, 1891 in Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts). They had two children: Amy Augusta, born August 21, 1892 and Ruth Upham, born October 21, 1897.