American scientist Wilbur Scoville, was the first to measure the heat component in chillies. And Google is marking his 151st birth anniversary with a playable doodle that integrates the his eponymous Scoville Scale that measures the pungency (spicy heat) of chilli peppers.
Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA on January 22, 1865. He had devised the test and scale now known as Scoville Scale in 1912 while working for a pharmaceutical company.
Google describes Wilbur Lincoln Scoville as "a chemist, award-winning researcher, professor of pharmacology and the second vice-chairman of the American Pharmaceutical Association. His book, The Art of Compounding, makes one of the earliest mentions of milk as an antidote for pepper heat. He is perhaps best remembered for his organoleptic test, which uses human testers to measure pugency in peppers."
Google's interactive Wilbur Scovill doodle gives the Scoville Scale a fighting game twist. Play the doodle game below to see which hottest pepper your ice cream can beat.
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