page_title: Wilbur Scoville
hierarchical_section_title: Wilbur Scoville
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilbur Scovillewas a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences before working for Parke Davis, Boston, Massachusetts
context_page_description: 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, "spiciness" or "heat", of various chili peppers.
context_section_description: 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 pungency, "spiciness" or "heat", of various chili peppers.
caption: Scoville in 1910
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