Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Scoville 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. 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. Scoville wrote "The Art of Compounding", which
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship classes. Herbert Scoville (1915-1985) was a nuclear arms control activist and held many professional positions related to arms control. Dr. Scoville worked for the National Defense Research Committee, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense, helped found the Arms Control Association, and led the Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Herbert Scoville was also a graduate of Yale University and the University of Rochester, where he earned a PhD. Dr. Scoville was at the forefront of arms control and nuclear issues and thought it was indispensable to motivate young people to get involved with the