Background
Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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. They had two children: Amy Augusta, born August 21, 1892 and Ruth Upham, born October 21, 1897. Scoville wrote The Art of Compounding, which 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. Foreign 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. lieutenant measured piquancy, or "spiciness", of various chili peppers.
lieutenant is now standardized as the Scoville scale.
Scoville also received an honorary Doctor of Science from Columbia University in 1929.