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
Thomas Scoville and "Martin Luther, Meet Linus Torvalds" as well as perspectives on open-source software for O'Reilly Media. Two minor works demonstrate playful collisions of popular culture and occult spirituality: "The Metrosexual Tarot", published in 2003, burlesqued urban male narcissism and consumer culture, while "The Comic Bardo Thodol", published in 2008, recast the Tibetan Book Of The Dead in comic book form using imagery from mass-market entertainment. Thomas Scoville Thomas Scoville (b. California 1960). American humorist, programmer, technologist and author who chronicled the rise and fall of Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble. Two works render a Silicon Valley insider's perspective based