BIOLOGIST

Wilbur Scoville

1865 - 1942

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilbur Scoville has received more than 1,120,037 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Wilbur Scoville is the 211th most popular biologist (down from 172nd in 2019), the 1,938th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,706th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilbur Scoville ranks 211 out of 1,097. Before him are J. B. S. Haldane, Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Thomas Browne. After him are Tomitaro Makino, Joseph Banks, Hans Driesch, Hideyo Noguchi, Michael W. Young, and Desmond Morris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Wilbur Scoville ranks 51. Before him are Wilfrid Voynich, Abraham Isaac Kook, Frederick Cook, Rainis, Charles Bally, and Edith Cavell. After him are Sabino Arana, Jovan Cvijić, Shigechiyo Izumi, Hannah Chaplin, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, and Andrey Sheptytsky. Among people deceased in 1942, Wilbur Scoville ranks 63. Before him are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Flinders Petrie, Dorothea Klumpke, Leopold Berchtold, Heinz Hitler, and Lauri Kristian Relander. After him are Yuri Kondratyuk, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Avraham Stern, Augustinas Voldemaras, Alexander Belyaev, and Valdemar Poulsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilbur Scoville ranks 1,938 out of 20,380. Before him are Maria Branyas (1907), Ted Turner (1938), Moby (1965), Mick Foley (1965), Connie Francis (1938), and Jim Henson (1936). After him are Martha Stewart (1941), Avery Brundage (1887), Sequoyah (1770), Lee Majors (1939), Carl Andre (1935), and Robert E. Park (1864).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Wilbur Scoville ranks 37. Before him are George Wald (1906), Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Daniel Nathans (1928), Asa Gray (1810), and Temple Grandin (1947). After him are Michael W. Young (1949), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), James Dwight Dana (1813), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), George Smith (1941), and Charles M. Rice (1952).

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