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The chinese used fermented soybean curd fo treat skin ifections
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Around 1840, Shaw concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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Louis Pasteur determined that fermetation is caused by yeast.
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Eduard Buchner won the Nobel prize for showing enzymes cause fermentation not the yeast cells themselves.
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They determined exzctly how enzymes cause fermetation and they won the Nobel prize for their work.
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By the 1940s, technology was eveloed touse fermentation to produced antibiotics
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Fermentation was first used to make bread rise and produce alcoholic beverages.