History of Fermentation By imnotcool1 220 Ferminated tea to treat illnesses Jan 1, 1840 Schwan concluded fermintation is the result of living things Jan 1, 1854 Louis Pasteur determined fermintation is caused by yeast Jan 1, 1907 Eduard Buchner recieved nobel prize for showing enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermintation Jan 1, 1929 Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Cheplin, won nobel prize for determining exactly how enzymes cause fermintation. Jan 1, 2000 The use of fermentation to make bread rise