Google doodles mark Wilbur Scoville's 151st birthday and his red hot chilli peppers

New Delhi: 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.

Chillies have been known to cause tears, the wild grab for water the moment you bite on one by mistake is something all of us have experienced at least once. Before Wilbur Scoville however, no one knew how to measure a pepper's "heat".

The doodle team thought his work in this field-and the development of his eponymous Scoville Scale-deserved some recognition.

Born in Bridgeport Connecticut on January 22nd, 1865, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was 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 spice level of peppers.

Spiciness is described as a mini fighting game in this doodle. It allows you to test spice level of every chilly in existence with a brief description of the pepper before you faceoff against it.

Each level gets progressively tougher, starting off with bell peppers that has 0 scoville heat units and facing off against the fearsome Trinidad Morgua Sorpion pepper that has over 2 million in Scoville heat units.