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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 1,100,107 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilbur Scoville is the 173rd most popular biologist (up from 242nd in 2019), the 1,706th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,412th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilbur Scoville ranks 173 out of 841. Before him are Renato Dulbecco, Louis Agassiz, Michael Houghton, Temple Grandin, John B. Calhoun, and Hans Driesch. After him are Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Tatum, Leland H. Hartwell, Antoine Béchamp, J. B. S. Haldane, and Rudolf Vrba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Wilbur Scoville ranks 46. Before him are Duan Qirui, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, Princess Marie of Orléans, Edith Cavell, Lala Lajpat Rai, and Yvette Guilbert. After him are Shigechiyo Izumi, Nikola Zhekov, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Sabino Arana, and Rainis. Among people deceased in 1942, Wilbur Scoville ranks 52. Before him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Grant Wood, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Yosano Akiko, and Daniil Kharms. After him are Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Ivan Bilibin, Adam Czerniaków, Leopold Berchtold, Lauri Kristian Relander, and Leopold Mandić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilbur Scoville ranks 1,706 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert E. Park (1864), Michael Dudikoff (1954), Tom Regan (1938), Charles Eames (1907), James Oliver Curwood (1878), and Thomas Haden Church (1960). After him are Jessye Norman (1945), Richard Jenkins (1947), Adrien Brody (1973), Jerry Stiller (1927), Michael Spence (1943), and Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Wilbur Scoville ranks 32. Before him are Daniel Nathans (1928), Robert Whittaker (1920), J. Michael Bishop (1936), Paul Greengard (1925), Temple Grandin (1947), and John B. Calhoun (1917). After him are Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Edward Tatum (1909), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), George Wald (1906), George Smith (1941), and Howard Martin Temin (1934).

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