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The Chinese used fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses.
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Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermintation is caused by yeast.
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German chemist Eduard Buchner received Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin won the Nobel prize because they determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentaion.
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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections.
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People started to use fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages.