BIOLOGIST

Wilbur Scoville

1865 - 1942

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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", 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 "capsaicin concentration" of various chili peppers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilbur Scoville is the 298th most popular biologist (down from 211th in 2019), the 2,681st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,938th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilbur Scoville ranks 298 out of 1,097. Before him are Otto Brunfels, Jean Cabanis, Armen Takhtajan, Juliane Koepcke, Peter Medawar, and George Bentham. After him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Jacob Georg Agardh, Takenoshin Nakai, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, and Edward Turner Bennett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Wilbur Scoville ranks 60. Before him are Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Friedrich Paschen, Lucjan Żeligowski, Jovan Cvijić, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, and Charles Bally. After him are Jehanne D'Alcy, Lala Lajpat Rai, Louis Zutter, Albéric Magnard, Shigechiyo Izumi, and Johannes Franz Hartmann. Among people deceased in 1942, Wilbur Scoville ranks 73. Before him are Augustinas Voldemaras, Stjepan Filipović, Heinz Hitler, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, John Barrymore, and Georg Alexander Pick. After him are Karel Doorman, Miguel Hernández, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Erwin Schulhoff, Leonid Kulik, and Julio González.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilbur Scoville ranks 2,681 out of 20,380. Before him are David Crosby (1941), Yaphet Kotto (1939), David Farragut (1801), George Antheil (1900), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), and Frances Conroy (1953). After him are Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Alan Menken (1949), Philip José Farmer (1918), David Schwimmer (1966), Rhea Seehorn (1972), and Dick York (1928).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Wilbur Scoville ranks 53. Before him are Stephen Jay Gould (1941), John du Pont (1938), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Rothman (1950), Michael Rosbash (1944), and Michael W. Young (1949). After him are Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Andrew Fire (1959), David Baltimore (1938), Carol W. Greider (1961), and Charles M. Rice (1952).

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