Wilbur Scoville was first published in 1895 and has gone through at least 8 editions. The book was used as a pharmacological reference up until the 1960s. Scoville also wrote "Extracts and Perfumes", which contained hundreds of formulations. For a time he was a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. In 1912, he devised the test and scale known as the "Scoville Organoleptic Test" while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company. It measured piquancy, or "spiciness", of various chili peppers. It is now standardized as the Scoville scale. In 1922, Scoville won the Ebert prize from the American
Scoville Browne serving in the U.S. military during World War II. Following his discharge he played with Hopkins again and with Buck Clayton. Browne worked as a bandleader on and off in the 1950s, and also studied classical music. He played with Lionel Hampton and Muggsy Spanier late in the 1950s, and appears in the 1958 photograph "A Great Day in Harlem". Browne continued to do work with Hopkins into the 1970s. He never recorded as a bandleader. Scoville Browne Scoville "Toby" Browne (October 13, 1909, Atlanta – October 3, 1994) was an American jazz reedist. Browne played in the late 1920s