This Day, That Year – January 22

Wilbur Scoville was an American pharmacist born on this day in 1865. He is best known for his creation of the “Scoville Organoleptic Test”, now standardized as the Scoville scale.

Did you know that:

• Johannes Brahms’ first piano concerto premiered in Hanover on this day in 1859
• Lev Landau, the physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, was born on this day in 1908
• Leslie Silver, founder of Silver Paint and Lacquer, was born on this day in 1925