Wilbur Scoville Pharmaceutical Association and in 1929 he received the Remington Honor Medal. Scoville also received an honorary Doctor of Science from Columbia University in 1929. He won the following awards from the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA): 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
Scoville scale the parts-per-million by 16." HPLC results permit the measurement of a substance’s capsaicin capacity to produce perceived heat ("pungency"). This method yields results in American Spice Trade Association (ASTA) "pungency units", which are defined as one part capsaicin per million parts dried pepper mass. For parts per million (ppm) measurements: "Scoville Heat Units are calculated in parts per million of heat (ppm H) based on sample dry weight according to the following equation from ASTA (1985): ppm H = [Peak area of capsaicin + (0.82)(peak area of dihydrocapsaicin)](ppm standard)(ml acetonitrile) ÷ (Total capsaicin peak area of standard)(g sample). Conversion to