History of Fermentation

Tea to Treat Illnesses

220

The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections, and they started using fermented tea to treat a veriety of illnesses.

Fermentation is the Result of Living Things

Jan 1, 1840

Theodor Schwann, concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.

Fermentation Caused by Yeast

Jan 1, 1854

French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

Nobel Prize

Jan 1, 1907

Eduard Buchner received Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in the yeast cells, not the yeast itself, cause fermentation.

Determened How Enzymes Cause Fermentation

Jan 1, 1929

Artur Harden and Hans Euler-Chlepin determined how enzymes cause fermentation

Fermentation Makes Antibiodics

Jan 1, 1940

Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiodics