History of Fermentation By veronica15 220 Chinese used fermented tea to help treat illnesses and fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections Jan 1, 1840 Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things Jan 1, 1854 Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast Jan 1, 1907 Eduard Buchner received Nobel Prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation Jan 1, 1929 Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin won Nobel Prize for determing exactly how enzymes cause fermentation Jan 1, 1940 Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics Jan 1, 2000 Fermentation used to make bread rise and produce alcoholic beverages