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Theodor Schwann
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Louis Pasteur
French chemist Louis Pasteur dtermined that fermentation is caused by yeast. His idea was influenced by the earlier work of Theodor Schwann. -
Eduard Buchner
The German chemist Eduard Buchner recieved the Nobel prize for proving that enzymes in yeast cells caused fermentation not the yeast cell itself. -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
They won the Nobel prize for determining exactly how enzymes caused fermentation. -
Antibiodics
By the 1940's technology was developed to use fermentation to create antibiodics. -
Early Uses of Fermentation
In 220 B.C. uses of fermentation encluded fermented tea, help dough in bread to rise, and used in alcoholic beverages.