When1: 1953
When2: 1962
Who: William Beecher Scoville [Scoville, William Beecher]
What: psychologist
Where: Canada
works\ Loss of Recent Memory After Bilateral Hippocampal Lesions [1957: with Brenda Milner]
Detail: He lived 1906 to 1984. He studied H.M. [1953], who had no bilateral temporal lobes or hippocampus after surgery and did not make long-term memories, though he learned motor tasks [1962: with Brenda Milner].
Another William Scoville used parts per million of capsicum {SHU scale} to measure hot pepper heat [1912].
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