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