Wilbur Scoville
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title:
Wilbur Scoville
text:
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 "capsaicin concentration” of various chili peppers.
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American pharmacist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Scoville
date created:
2004-06-05T19:06:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T20:03:20Z
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